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srijeda, 20.10.2010.

? Continued drinking despite having ongoing relationship problems that are caused or worsened by the effects of alcohol.

Van was screaming something and Jolu was shouting and I looked at them for a second and that was when someone put a coarse.
Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.
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.
Sack over my head and cinched it tight around my windpipe.
What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!
America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.
Whenever evil befalls us, we ought to ask ourselves, after the first suffering, how we can turn it into good. So shall we take occasion, from one bitter root, to raise perhaps many flowers.

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

A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top .
A joke's a very serious thing.
I was not a child prodigy, because a child prodigy is a child who knows as much when it is a child as it does when it grows up.
The two symbols of the Republican Party: an elephant, and a big fat white guy who is threatened by change.
Depend not on fortune, but on conduct.
Nothing is so awesomely unfamiliar as the familiar that discloses itself at the end of a journey.
To be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.

Good taste is the enemy of comedy.

Censorship, like charity, should begin at home; but, unlike charity, it should end there.
Self-importance is our greatest enemy. Think about it - what weakens us is feeling offended by the deeds and misdeeds of our fellowmen. Our self-importance requires that we spend most of our lives offended by someone.
Laughter is supposed to be the best medicine, however, it should never be at the expense of someone?s feelings or ignoring truth.
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.
Where facts are few, experts are many.
Someone's boring me. I think it's me.
Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.

Hoover and the Republicans were blamed for the disastrous economic depression that soon enveloped the country, and the Democrats, under Franklin Delano Roosevelt, were swept into office in 1932.

I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.
He had learned over the years that poor people did not feel so poor when allowed to give occasionally.
Never despair; but if you do, work on in despair.
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.
I barely had time to register them before those rifles were pointed at me.
He who laughs, lasts!
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 have lost friends, some by death... others through sheer inability to cross the street.

Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.
When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.
Intimacy is what makes a marriage, not a ceremony, not a piece of paper from the state.
Memory feeds imagination.
Go often to the house of thy friend; for weeds soon choke up the unused path.
When they discover the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to discover they are not it.
Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.

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

A doctor saves lives -- It's up to people to create lives that are worth saving.
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.
Walking is man's best medicine.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
Self-importance is our greatest enemy. Think about it - what weakens us is feeling offended by the deeds and misdeeds of our fellowmen. Our self-importance requires that we spend most of our lives offended by someone.
My father hated radio and could not wait for television to be invented so he could hate that too.
The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star.

Answering the following four questions can help you find out.

I'm going to stay in show business until I'm the last one left.
Darryl wasn't in good shape -- he was white-faced and panting.
It is my hope that I can assist you in getting here too.
Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.
He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.
You need only claim the event of your life to make yourself yours. When you truly possess all you have been and done, which may take some time, you are fierce with reality.
I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.

The 1996 elections saw incumbents generally retain their offices.

You always pass failure on the way to success.
What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!
The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.
A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.
I was gratified to be able to answer promptly. I said I don't know.
Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper.
He who boasts of his ancestry is praising the deeds of another.

For a man of such great significance to the world of mathematics, little is known about his actual life.

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.
Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
My home is not a place, it is people.
A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down.
You never know how a horse will pull until you hook him up to a heavy load.
I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty... But I am too busy thinking about myself.
Do what you feel in your heart to be right - for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't.

I 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 reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans.
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.
Is there life before death?
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.
I'd learned my lesson.
I despise the pleasure of pleasing people that I despise.

One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.

Up ahead, I saw someone, a middle-aged lady in a hippie dress, falter and fall.
A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
Without the capacity to provide its own information, the mind drifts into randomness.
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?
There are two types of people--those who come into a room and say, 'Well, here I am!' and those who come in and say, 'Ah, there you are.'
Do not envy a sinner; you don't know what disaster awaits him.
All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance.

Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.

Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
Neither did the cop car that went past, nor the firetruck, nor the next three cop-cars.
Experience is a good teacher, but she send in terrific bills.
Depend not on fortune, but on conduct.
Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
Never does the human soul appear so strong and noble as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury.
If you want to be respected, you must respect yourself.

Sydney is the best known place in New South Wales.

Speak when you are angry--and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret.
Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.
Things won are done; joy's soul lies in the doing.
We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.
The creative is the place where no one else has ever been. You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover will be yourself.
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.
Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.

However, in practice, there are no real mechanisms of women?s rights fulfillment as well as for their active participation in social life.

Nothing can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.
I never met anybody who said when they were a kid, "I wanna grow up and be a critic."
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.
We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.
Be thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till all commend.
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.
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.

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

Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that's where you renew your springs that never dry up.
I don't generally feel anything until noon; then it's time for my nap.
My father hated radio and could not wait for television to be invented so he could hate that too.
You freeze where you are, time stops, and your heart thunders in your ears.
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 be a cynic, even a gentle one. Never help out a sneer, even at the devil.
Someone went upside my head again.

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

Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousand of miles and all the years you have lived.
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.
The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.
Nothing can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.
Anger is never without Reason, but seldom with a good One.
Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.
But be, as you have been, my happiness...

A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top .

For the most part, fear is nothing but an illusion. When you share it with someone else, it tends to disappear.
Someone went upside my head again.
Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.
Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.
History is more or less bunk.
The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.
The toughest question has always been, "How do you get your ideas?" How do you answer that? It's like asking runners how they run, or singers how they sing. They just do it!

I often read for pleasure and sometimes for information.

The car slewed to a stop and only then did I notice that it wasn't a cop car, ambulance or fire-engine.
Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.
Nobody is ever met at the airport when beginning a new adventure. It's just not done.
Sorrow was like the wind. It came in gusts.
Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less.
A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
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 Aral Sea is on the brink of extinction.

The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility.
Darryl wasn't in good shape -- he was white-faced and panting.
Thomas Jefferson once said, 'We should never judge a president by his age, only by his works.' And ever since he told me that, I stopped worrying.
From the moment I picked up your book until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.
Walking is man's best medicine.
The car slewed to a stop and only then did I notice that it wasn't a cop car, ambulance or fire-engine.
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.

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

Never let the demands of tomorrow interfere with the pleasures and excitement of today.
If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.
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.
The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.
When you make a mistake, don't look back at it long. Take the reason of the thing into your mind and then look forward. Mistakes are lessons of wisdom. The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.
You need only claim the event of your life to make yourself yours. When you truly possess all you have been and done, which may take some time, you are fierce with reality.
Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.

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

Inspiration does exist, but it must find you working.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down.
When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.
Self-importance is our greatest enemy. Think about it - what weakens us is feeling offended by the deeds and misdeeds of our fellowmen. Our self-importance requires that we spend most of our lives offended by someone.
I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
Treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.

Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis.

We all have strength enough to endure the misfortunes of others.
When all is said and done, the weather and love are the two elements about which one can never be sure.
If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.
We can be sure that the greatest hope for maintaining equilibrium in the face of any situation rests within ourselves.
Art is either plagiarism or revolution.
I stumbled some, then a hand pushed my head down and I was inside the Hummer.
By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd be grown up.

That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.

Health consists of having the same diseases as one's neighbors.
We cannot destroy kindred: Our chains stretch a little sometimes, but they never break.
Electricity is actually made up of extremely tiny particles called electrons, that you cannot see with the naked eye unless you have been drinking.
He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
Truly great madness cannot be achieved without significant intelligence.
Nothing can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.

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 felt the doors open near me, and then saw a confusion of booted feet moving close by.
There isn?t much better in this life than finding a way to spend a few hours in conversation with people you respect and love. You have to carve this time out of your life because you aren?t really living without it.
There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.
You must not think me necessarily foolish because I am facetious, nor will I consider you necessarily wise because you are grave.
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.
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
I stand in awe of my body.

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.

History is more or less bunk.
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.
Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.
The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.
All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.
Nothing in the world can take the place of Persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan 'Press On' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.

I 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.

It's all right to have butterflies in your stomach. Just get them to fly in formation.
By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd be grown up.
I've never quite believed that one chance is all I get.
I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters.
Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.
Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.
It is never too late to give up our prejudices.

They were successful in the elections of 1858 and passed over their better-known leaders to nominate Abraham Lincoln in 1860.

Time is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. Truth is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. You don't need anything else.
I was sick of cars driving right past me.
If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk?
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 have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.
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.

There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.

I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.
Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it.
Confidence is the sexiest thing a woman can have. It's much sexier than any body part.
Treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.
There ain't no free lunches in this country. And don't go spending your whole life commiserating that you got raw deals. You've got to say, 'I think that if I keep working at this and want it bad enough I can have it.'
In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.

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.

Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.
You always pass failure on the way to success.
Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves.
Sometimes love will pick you up by the short hairs...and jerk the heck out of you.
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.
What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!
We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.

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.

You can't deny laughter. When it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.
When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.
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.
Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
Money doesn't always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are no happier than people with nine million dollars.
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' (I found it!) but 'That's funny ...'
Do not envy a sinner; you don't know what disaster awaits him.

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

I wanted to flag you down because my friend was bleeding. Someone stabbed him."
Sitting in the back of that Hummer, my head in a hood, my hands lashed behind my back, lurching back and forth while the bruises swelled up on my head, terrorism suddenly felt a lot riskier.
The lesson which life repeats and constantly enforces is 'look under foot.' You are always nearer the divine and the true sources of your power than you think.
Is there life before death?
What if this weren't a hypothetical question?
By prizing heartfulness above faultlessness, we may reap more from our effort because we're more likely to be changed by it.
Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke.

The dancers got many curtain calls and were presented with many flowers.

Liberals are very broadminded: they are always willing to give careful consideration to both sides of the same side.
Get pleasure out of life...as much as you can. Nobody ever died from pleasure.
Whenever evil befalls us, we ought to ask ourselves, after the first suffering, how we can turn it into good. So shall we take occasion, from one bitter root, to raise perhaps many flowers.
What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?
Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.
What if this weren't a hypothetical question?
There's so much pollution in the air now that if it weren't for our lungs there'd be no place to put it all.

It is a good idea to begin by attempting to define in clear terms what your requirements are from a career.

If you think taking care of yourself is selfish, change your mind. If you don't, you're simply ducking your responsibilities.
Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable.
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.
There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.
The crux... is that the vast majority of the mass of the universe seems to be missing.
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'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.

? New medications: Studies have led to the Food and Drug Administration's approval of the medication naltrexone for the treatment of alcoholism.

Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable.
The great thing about a computer notebook is that no matter how much you stuff into it, it doesn't get bigger or heavier.
Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid.
Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.
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.
The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.
The habit of giving only enhances the desire to give.

Fresh clean sheets are one of life's small joys.

What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?
A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead. A man with ambition and love for his blessings here on earth is ever so alive. Having been alive, it won't be so hard in the end to lie down and rest.
Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives.
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.
As I get older, I've learned to listen to people rather than accuse them of things.
Learning to live in the present moment is part of the path of joy.
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.

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

So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.
You know what's interesting about Washington? It's the kind of place where second-guessing has become second nature.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.
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.
Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life.

There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.

Now is the time for all good men to come to.
Know, first, who you are; and then adorn yourself accordingly.
Some people make headlines while others make history.
Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.
Someone went upside my head again.
The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.

Or vice versa sometimes a really tasty candy is hidden under very unattractive wrapping paper. The same I can say about people.

Keep cool and you command everybody.
You could get on a boat there, get away. That fit with the terrorism hypothesis.
The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value.
Intimacy is being seen and known as the person you truly are.
Never be a cynic, even a gentle one. Never help out a sneer, even at the devil.
Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.
All the world's a cage.

There are about 200 professional theatres in Britain.

Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.
Fall is my favorite season in Los Angeles, watching the birds change color and fall from the trees.
There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.
Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to be caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self.
You couldn't even prove the White House staff sane beyond a reasonable doubt.
Good taste is the enemy of comedy.
Do it now. It is not safe to leave a generous feeling to the cooling influences of the world.

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

When we are unhurried and wise, we perceive that only great and worthy things have any permanent and absolute existence, that petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of the reality.
Listen. Do not have an opinion while you listen because frankly, your opinion doesn?t hold much water outside of Your Universe. Just listen. Listen until their brain has been twisted like a dripping towel and what they have to say is all over the floor.
When you want to believe in something, you also have to believe in everything that's necessary for believing in it.
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few; and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.
We are made to persist. That's how we find out who we are.
It was a military-looking Jeep, like an armored Hummer, only it didn't have any military insignia on it.
They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.

The library is helpful when I have to make a report, when I need information on some subjects.

Walking is man's best medicine.
I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!
He who is not very strong in memory should not meddle with lying.
Nothing is impossible. Some things are just less likely than others.
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.
I got up the third step and reached for the fourth, but it wasn't there.
Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.

An idea is salvation by imagination.

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.
Best wide-angle lens? Two steps backward. Look for the 'ah-ha'.
His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even... knowledge, was foolproof.
Someone went upside my head again.
What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty.
Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.
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.

They can conquer who believe they can.

Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
There are always survivors at a massacre. Among the victors, if nowhere else.
If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play at it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf.
Above all things, never be afraid. The enemy who forces you to retreat is himself afraid of you at that very moment.
The lesson which life repeats and constantly enforces is 'look under foot.' You are always nearer the divine and the true sources of your power than you think.
I was in total darkness now and I strained my ears to hear what was going on with my friends.
I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate.

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

I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters.
All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance.
Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.
Is there life before death?
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.
Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.

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

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.
Oh, I don't blame Congress. If I had $600 billion at my disposal, I'd be irresponsible, too.
When you have got an elephant by the hind leg, and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.
We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.
The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt.
To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all.
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?

Limited work supervision, often a problem on evening shifts, has been associated with employee alcohol problems.

Where facts are few, experts are many.
Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.
Laughter is supposed to be the best medicine, however, it should never be at the expense of someone?s feelings or ignoring truth.
Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.
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.
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
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.

But then Australians decided to build a capital city..

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.
A man can do all things if he but wills them.
Now is the time for all good men to come to.
Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
The Past is to be respected and acknoledged, but not to be worshiped. It is our future in which we will find our greatness.
Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.
After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.

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

On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily lying down.
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.
We may not imagine how our lives could be more frustrating and complex--but Congress can.
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.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.
All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.

Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.

The summer night is like a perfection of thought.
The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.
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.
As I get older, I've learned to listen to people rather than accuse them of things.
It's a dangerous business going out your front door.
Even the fear of death is nothing compared to the fear of not having lived authentically and fully.

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.

People fail forward to success.
Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.
I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.
Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.
Nothing is so good for an ignorant man as silence; and if he was sensible of this he would not be ignorant.
The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
What some people mistake for the high cost of living is really the cost of high living.

All things are difficult before they are easy.

You must not think me necessarily foolish because I am facetious, nor will I consider you necessarily wise because you are grave.
Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
Thomas Jefferson once said, 'We should never judge a president by his age, only by his works.' And ever since he told me that, I stopped worrying.
Look at all the sentences which seem true and question them.
I'm going to stay in show business until I'm the last one left.
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 heard Jolu respond, then felt the thump he was dealt, too.

nedjelja, 17.10.2010.

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

What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say.
Assuming either the Left Wing or the Right Wing gained control of the country, it would probably fly around in circles.
When they discover the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to discover they are not it.
When you close your doors, and make darkness within, remember never to say that you are alone, for you are not alone; nay, God is within, and your genius is within. And what need have they of light to see what you are doing?
There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
Who were these clowns?
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.

Worrying about them always struck me as about as useful as worrying about getting hit by lightning.

Be thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till all commend.
Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others.
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.
I used to think that the brain was the most wonderful organ in my body. Then I realized who was telling me this.
If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.

Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis.

You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence.
I'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.
Arguments are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often convincing.
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.
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.'
Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.

Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.

The faceless, eyeless armed man above me kept his gun very level.
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.
Sometimes love will pick you up by the short hairs...and jerk the heck out of you.
The average person thinks he isn't.
We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.
The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
Fall is my favorite season in Los Angeles, watching the birds change color and fall from the trees.

The art of dining well is no slight art, the pleasure not a slight pleasure.

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.
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.
The mellow sweetness of pumpkin pie off a prison spoon is something you will never forget.
In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the next meal would come from.
A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
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.
A chess genius is a human being who focuses vast, little-understood mental gifts and labors on an ultimately trivial human enterprise.

Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.

I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
The more freedom we enjoy, the greater the responsibility we bear, toward others as well as ourselves.
A few seconds later, I tripped over a steel staircase, bashing my shins.
It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
Peace is when time doesn't matter as it passes by.
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
It is not enough to aim; you must hit.

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

One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.
So little time and so little to do.
The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.
It's important to begin a search on a full stomach.
Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less.
All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance.
I'm moving, but don't worry! Someone once told me we're all on the same planet, so I'll be okay!

Many schools and universities have no central heating either, and the floors there are made of stone.

A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money.
Dance is the hidden language of the soul.
Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
Everyone wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant.
Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
If you think taking care of yourself is selfish, change your mind. If you don't, you're simply ducking your responsibilities.
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.

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.

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.
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.
Fall is my favorite season in Los Angeles, watching the birds change color and fall from the trees.
How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!
That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.
To try to be better is to be better.
No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.

četvrtak, 14.10.2010.

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

There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.
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 summer night is like a perfection of thought.
A moment later, I caught my breath, but I didn't say anything.
The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.
Now we were descending just as steeply.
There is no nonsense so errant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action.

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

We've got to get my friend to a hospital --"
Keep cool and you command everybody.
Sometimes the cure for restlessness is rest.
We should every night call ourselves to an account; What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed? What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired? Our vices will abort of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.
You can go a long way with bad legs and a good head.
A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.
My mother loved children -- she would have given anything if I had been one.

To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all.

In an industrial society which confuses work and productivity, the necessity of producing has always been an enemy of the desire to create.
I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.
In the absences of a decent time machine, fiction remains the most sturdy vehicle for visiting other eras.
He was one of those men who think that the world can be saved by writing a pamphlet.
True friends are those who really know you but love you anyway.
Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
Man is only miserable so far as he thinks himself so.

Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.

He who is not very strong in memory should not meddle with lying.
Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.
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.
Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment.
The great art of giving consists in this: the gift should cost very little and yet be greatly coveted, so that it may be the more highly appreciated.
You can't deny laughter. When it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.
...happiness gives us the energy which is the basis of health.

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

You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are; but you must approach each man by the right door.
My eyes swam and watered and I literally couldn't breathe through the pain.
The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.
The best way out is always through.
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.
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.
Take a two-mile walk every morning before breakfast.

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

Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
Hollywood is a place where they place you under contract instead of under observation.
He was one of those men who think that the world can be saved by writing a pamphlet.
Censorship, like charity, should begin at home; but, unlike charity, it should end there.
The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said.
We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.
It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.

Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.

A minute's success pays the failure of years.
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 don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.
Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.
There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.
Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
You can go a long way with bad legs and a good head.

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

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.
An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.
I despise the pleasure of pleasing people that I despise.
It is only possible to live happily ever after on a day-to-day basis.
We think in generalities, but we live in detail.
I don't like composers who think. It gets in the way of their plagiarism.
When you want to believe in something, you also have to believe in everything that's necessary for believing in it.

The most beautiful adventures are not those we go to seek.

A neurosis is a secret that you don't know you are keeping.
Vegetarianism is harmless enough, though it is apt to fill a man with wind and self-righteousness.
Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge.
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.
It's all right to have butterflies in your stomach. Just get them to fly in formation.
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.
If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.

srijeda, 13.10.2010.

Our flat is very warm and cosy, so it makes any person feel at home.

You couldn't even prove the White House staff sane beyond a reasonable doubt.
Maybe the most any of us can expect of ourselves isn't perfection but progress.
I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.
Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.
To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level.

None are so busy as the fool and knave.

The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
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.
Exercise ferments the humors, casts them into their proper channels, throws off redundancies, and helps nature in those secret distributions, without which the body cannot subsist in its vigor, nor the soul act with cheerfulness.
It is only possible to live happily ever after on a day-to-day basis.
Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.
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.

Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.

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.
All movements go too far.
Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
Feet, why do I need them if I have wings to fly?
Each individual woman's body demands to be accepted on its own terms.
I got up the third step and reached for the fourth, but it wasn't there.
Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.

The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.

In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.
A doctor saves lives -- It's up to people to create lives that are worth saving.
If you want to be respected, you must respect yourself.
You freeze where you are, time stops, and your heart thunders in your ears.
Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.
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.

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

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?
Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.
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 an applause superior to that of the multitudes: one's own.
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 man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
We need anything politically important rationed out like Pez: small, sweet, and coming out of a funny, plastic head.

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

It is impossible to walk rapidly and be unhappy.
I have a simple philosophy. Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. And scratch where it itches.
Hope is tomorrow's veneer over today's disappointment.
The most important thing she'd learned over the years was that there was no way to be a perfect mother and a million ways to be a good one.
Nobody is ever met at the airport when beginning a new adventure. It's just not done.
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
Turn the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles.

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

We can be sure that the greatest hope for maintaining equilibrium in the face of any situation rests within ourselves.
I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.
We do not believe if we do not live and work according to our belief.
All the world's a cage.
I have been through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.
We learn and grow and are transformed not so much by what we do but by why and how we do it.
Talking with you is sort of the conversational equivalent of an out of body experience.

I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.

More bodies were roughly shoved in beside me.
Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
I guess we'd be living in a boring, perfect world if everybody wished everybody else well.
Inspiration does exist, but it must find you working.
Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.
The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility.
History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind.

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

The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
It is impossible to walk rapidly and be unhappy.
I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
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.
For visions come not to polluted eyes.
As I get older, I've learned to listen to people rather than accuse them of things.

Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.

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.
If our early lessons of acceptance were as successful as our early lessons of anger, how much happier we would all be.
Censorship, like charity, should begin at home; but, unlike charity, it should end there.
What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?
As I get older, I've learned to listen to people rather than accuse them of things.
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.
Some people make headlines while others make history.

Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.

Think of yourself as an incandescent power, illuminated and perhaps forever talked to by God and his messengers.
Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.
The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.
If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody.
The 'Net is a waste of time, and that's exactly what's right about it.
I didn't even breathe.
For visions come not to polluted eyes.

What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?

There is no nonsense so errant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action.
I kept talking. "Listen -- this is some kind of misunderstanding.
I've been on a diet for two weeks and all I've lost is two weeks.
There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?
The summer night is like a perfection of thought.
It's important to begin a search on a full stomach.
All movements go too far.

Union military failures early in the war and conservative opposition to such measures as the Emancipation Proclamation caused the party to lose ground in the Congressional elections of 1862. But despite mutterings against his leadership, Lincoln, renomina

Humor is also a way of saying something serious.
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.
Beware the pull on your heartstrings -- it's often the pursestrings that are actually being reached for.
Statistics: The only science that enables different experts using the same figures to draw different conclusions.
In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.
I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
At the mention of the word mace, the guy looked scared and kind of melted back, though the crowd kept him moving forward.

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

It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.
More bodies were roughly shoved in beside me.
Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.
Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy.
There isn?t much better in this life than finding a way to spend a few hours in conversation with people you respect and love. You have to carve this time out of your life because you aren?t really living without it.
It's the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion.
It is easier to exclude harmful passions than to rule them, and to deny them admittance than to control them after they have been admitted.

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

Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.
Even the best of friends need time apart.
When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest.
If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play at it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf.
We bear the world and we make it... There was never a great man who had not a great mother - it is hardly an exaggeration.
Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less.
Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth?Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.

Union military failures early in the war and conservative opposition to such measures as the Emancipation Proclamation caused the party to lose ground in the Congressional elections of 1862. But despite mutterings against his leadership, Lincoln, renomina

We all have strength enough to endure the misfortunes of others.
People fail forward to success.
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.
All movements go too far.
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.
Listen. Do not have an opinion while you listen because frankly, your opinion doesn?t hold much water outside of Your Universe. Just listen. Listen until their brain has been twisted like a dripping towel and what they have to say is all over the floor.
You need only claim the event of your life to make yourself yours. When you truly possess all you have been and done, which may take some time, you are fierce with reality.

? New medications: Studies have led to the Food and Drug Administration's approval of the medication naltrexone for the treatment of alcoholism.

Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
A chess genius is a human being who focuses vast, little-understood mental gifts and labors on an ultimately trivial human enterprise.
Talking with you is sort of the conversational equivalent of an out of body experience.
No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.
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.
Someone's boring me. I think it's me.
I'd never looked down the barrel of a gun before, but everything you've heard about the experience is true.

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 wom

A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top .
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.
You can't deny laughter. When it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.
To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level.
Best wide-angle lens? Two steps backward. Look for the 'ah-ha'.
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.
Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

utorak, 12.10.2010.

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

Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility.
What's the earth With all its art, verse, music, worth - Compared with love, found, gained, and kept?
Fresh clean sheets are one of life's small joys.
We can be sure that the greatest hope for maintaining equilibrium in the face of any situation rests within ourselves.
If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
Truth has beauty, power and necessity.

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

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.
On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily lying down.
You can only cure retail but you can prevent .
Keep cool and you command everybody.
The summer night is like a perfection of thought.
As long as you derive inner help and comfort from anything, keep it.
Get pleasure out of life...as much as you can. Nobody ever died from pleasure.

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

A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done.
Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers.
What's another word for Thesaurus?
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.
If it weren't for baseball, many kids wouldn't know what a millionaire looked like.
Early morning cheerfulness can be extremely obnoxious.
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."

You need only claim the event of your life to make yourself yours. When you truly possess all you have been and done, which may take some time, you are fierce with reality.

You don't get anything clean without getting something else dirty.
I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.
It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.
To try to be better is to be better.
Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis.
We can be sure that the greatest hope for maintaining equilibrium in the face of any situation rests within ourselves.
I phoned my dad to tell him I had stopped smoking. He called me a quitter.

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

Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
Nothing is so good for an ignorant man as silence; and if he was sensible of this he would not be ignorant.
I have always felt that a politician is to be judged by the animosities he excites among his opponents.
I gathered we were headed over Nob Hill, and from the angle, it seemed we were taking one of the steeper routes.
We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.
Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.
I hope that when I die, people say about me, 'Boy, that guy sure owed me a lot of money.'

Know, first, who you are; and then adorn yourself accordingly.

It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.
If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk?
The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.
Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
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.
Where facts are few, experts are many.
It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't.

In real life, unlike in Shakespeare, the sweetness of the rose depends upon the name it bears. Things are not only what they are. They are, in very important respects, what they seem to be.

Make hunger thy sauce, as a medicine for health.
It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.
Where facts are few, experts are many.
One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.
Bear in mind that you should conduct yourself in life as at a feast.
I don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is a language I don't understand.
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.

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

Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack.
Keep true to the dreams of thy youth.
Many people weigh the guilt they will feel against the pleasure of the forbidden action they want to take.
I have been through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.
There are plenty of good five-cent cigars in the country. The trouble is they cost a quarter. What this country needs is a good five-cent nickel.
To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level.

Usually such people keep the poultry and the cattle.

Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
It is only possible to live happily ever after on a day-to-day basis.
Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it.
Be thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till all commend.
Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that's where you renew your springs that never dry up.
There is an applause superior to that of the multitudes: one's own.
If there's one thing I know it's God does love a good joke.

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

Now we were descending just as steeply.
Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.
Students achieving Oneness will move on to Twoness.
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.
Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.
Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.
So little time and so little to do.

Agatha Christie's favourite way of murdering was by poisoning.

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.
What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?
I gathered we were headed over Nob Hill, and from the angle, it seemed we were taking one of the steeper routes.
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.
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.
Make hunger thy sauce, as a medicine for health.
For visions come not to polluted eyes.

Depend not on fortune, but on conduct.

It is not enough to aim; you must hit.
The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth that it prevents you from achieving.
He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.
My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-seven now, and we don't know where the hell she is.
So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.
Turn the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles.
Someone went upside my head again.

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

Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
Everyone wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant.
The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.
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.
No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.
Americans are benevolently ignorant about Canada, while Canadians are malevolently well informed about the United States.
Sometimes the cure for restlessness is rest.

And non-governmental charity organizations become a single source for support of such projects.

If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play at it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf.
I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.
Order is not pressure which is imposed on society from without, but an equilibrium which is set up from within.
A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms.
Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.
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.
Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.

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

Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.
A hobby a day keeps the doldrums away.
If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody.
Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.
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.
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.
Cheerfulness, it would appear, is a matter which depends fully as much on the state of things within, as on the state of things without and around us.

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

Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.
The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is inefficiency. An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty.
If the only prayer you ever say in your whole life is "thank you," that would suffice.
We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language.
I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for; perfection is God's business.
Good taste is the enemy of comedy.
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.

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

I don't like composers who think. It gets in the way of their plagiarism.
Art is science made clear.
What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?
Sometimes love will pick you up by the short hairs...and jerk the heck out of you.
There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth.
Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives.
Sitting in the back of that Hummer, my head in a hood, my hands lashed behind my back, lurching back and forth while the bruises swelled up on my head, terrorism suddenly felt a lot riskier.

More than 3.500 million tons of industrial waste is pumped into the North Sea every year.

Never eat more than you can lift.
Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.
What makes the engine go? Desire, desire, desire.
A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of.
No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.
The best of us must sometimes eat our words.
The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.

ponedjeljak, 11.10.2010.

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

We don't get offered crises, they arrive.
Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
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.
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.
Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.
I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.

Female unemployment is rising at a catastrophically high rate.

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.
Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
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.
What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say.
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
Fig Newton: The force required to accelerate a fig 39.37 inches per sec.
There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers.

Intimacy is what makes a marriage, not a ceremony, not a piece of paper from the state.

I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
Nobody is ever met at the airport when beginning a new adventure. It's just not done.
Assuming either the Left Wing or the Right Wing gained control of the country, it would probably fly around in circles.
An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought.
By prizing heartfulness above faultlessness, we may reap more from our effort because we're more likely to be changed by it.
I never know how much of what I say is true.
If you don't know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else.

I think we can't live without books.

Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.
My eyes swam and watered and I literally couldn't breathe through the pain.
You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
My home is not a place, it is people.
One of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish had been left unsaid.
It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.
Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.

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.

Even the fear of death is nothing compared to the fear of not having lived authentically and fully.
Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.
We all have strength enough to endure the misfortunes of others.
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.
Make hunger thy sauce, as a medicine for health.
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.
You don't stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop laughing.

He was taught at The Academy in Athens, founded by Plato, and probably tutored another great mathematician, Archimedes.

Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life.
Experience is a good teacher, but she send in terrific bills.
Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
A smiling face is half the meal.
There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.
In the right light, at the right time, everything is extraordinary.

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

There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.
You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are; but you must approach each man by the right door.
Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.
Equal opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent.
When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers.
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.

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

People fail forward to success.
The trick is to make sure you don't die waiting for prosperity to come.
He who boasts of his ancestry is praising the deeds of another.
Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.
No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.
Creative work is play. It is free speculation using materials of one's chosen form.
The Past is to be respected and acknoledged, but not to be worshiped. It is our future in which we will find our greatness.

Life is consciousness.

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.
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.
Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.
What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!
Never read a book through merely because you have begun 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.
Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves.

Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.

Somebody has to do something, and it's just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.
True friends are those who really know you but love you anyway.
The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.
If a dog jumps in your lap, it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does the same thing, it is because your lap is warmer.
Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.
The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.
When all is said and done, the weather and love are the two elements about which one can never be sure.

Sometimes you can't see yourself clearly until you see yourself through the eyes of others.

For the most part, fear is nothing but an illusion. When you share it with someone else, it tends to disappear.
Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.
Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality.
The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.
I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
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.
When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.

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

Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinions at all.
When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.
It is easier to exclude harmful passions than to rule them, and to deny them admittance than to control them after they have been admitted.
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
Vegetarianism is harmless enough, though it is apt to fill a man with wind and self-righteousness.
A chess genius is a human being who focuses vast, little-understood mental gifts and labors on an ultimately trivial human enterprise.
We are always in search of the redeeming formula, the crystallizing thought.

Greatness is more than potential. It is the execution of that potential. Beyond the raw talent. You need the appropriate training. You need the discipline. You need the inspiration. You need the drive.

It's a dangerous business going out your front door.
We do not believe if we do not live and work according to our belief.
Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.
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.
The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco.
What if this weren't a hypothetical question?
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.

The 1998 mid-term elections saw the Republican margin in the House reduced, despite expectations that they would benefit from the effects of the Lewinsky scandal; the results led to Gingrich's resignation from office.

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.
A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done.
You can go a long way with bad legs and a good head.
If the only prayer you ever say in your whole life is "thank you," that would suffice.
We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.
Winning is important to me, but what brings me real joy is the experience of being fully engaged in whatever I'm doing.
Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.

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

Summer afternoon - Summer afternoon... the two most beautiful words in the English language.
Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.
It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
I must create a system, or be enslaved by another man's.
I am not young enough to know everything.

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.

Thomas Jefferson once said, 'We should never judge a president by his age, only by his works.' And ever since he told me that, I stopped worrying.
I 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.
Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.
Keep cool and you command everybody.
Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
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.

More movement, and the sense of bodies being shackled in alongside of me.

A chess genius is a human being who focuses vast, little-understood mental gifts and labors on an ultimately trivial human enterprise.
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.
Talking with you is sort of the conversational equivalent of an out of body experience.
What makes the engine go? Desire, desire, desire.
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.'
Above all things, never be afraid. The enemy who forces you to retreat is himself afraid of you at that very moment.

I don't think about risks much. I just do what I want to do. If you gotta go, you gotta go.

Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.
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 have enjoyed greatly the second blooming... suddenly you find - at the age of 50, say - that a whole new life has opened before you.
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 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.
In the right light, at the right time, everything is extraordinary.
Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch.

nedjelja, 10.10.2010.

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

To try to be better is to be better.
She got her looks from her father. He's a plastic surgeon.
The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.
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.
A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnecessary.
There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life.

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

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.
God creates men, but they choose each other.
Life engenders life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.
While we have the gift of life, it seems to me that only tragedy is to allow part of us to die - whether it is our spirit, our creativity, or our glorious uniqueness.
The 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.
Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to be caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self.
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.

Fascinating though it is for tourist travelling, however, has become the most tiring of all the occupations for many businessmen and experts.

It's very hard to take yourself too seriously when you look at the world from outer space.
Don't mace him!" I shouted over the din. "You'll get us all too.
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.
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.
He had learned over the years that poor people did not feel so poor when allowed to give occasionally.
Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day.
Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

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

All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.
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.
The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.
The most erroneous stories are those we think we know best - and therefore never scrutinize or question.
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
Everybody likes a kidder, but nobody lends him money.
We rocked to a stop still on a downslope.

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.

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.
They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.
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.
There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?
I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.
Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.
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.

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

By prizing heartfulness above faultlessness, we may reap more from our effort because we're more likely to be changed by it.
Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.
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.
People will buy anything that is one to a customer.
No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.
One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.
One thing I've learned in all these years is not to make love when you really don't feel it; there's probably nothing worse you can do to yourself than that.

I remember, I liked thick books.

The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.
Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
The charity that hastens to proclaim its good deeds, ceases to be charity, and is only pride and ostentation.
A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a man of wit, and a pebble in the hand of a fool.
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.
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?
I like coincidences. They make me wonder about destiny, and whether free will is an illusion or just a matter of perspective. They let me speculate on the idea of some master plan that, from time to time, we're allowed to see out of the corner of our eye.

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

Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards.
You know what's interesting about Washington? It's the kind of place where second-guessing has become second nature.
Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.
I'd never looked down the barrel of a gun before, but everything you've heard about the experience is true.
We can be sure that the greatest hope for maintaining equilibrium in the face of any situation rests within ourselves.
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.

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 real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.
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.
Winning is important to me, but what brings me real joy is the experience of being fully engaged in whatever I'm doing.
It was a military-looking Jeep, like an armored Hummer, only it didn't have any military insignia on it.
Thomas Jefferson once said, 'We should never judge a president by his age, only by his works.' And ever since he told me that, I stopped worrying.
A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top .
Late to bed and late to wake will keep you long on money and short on mistakes.

subota, 09.10.2010.

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. Happines

If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; If you would know, and not be known, live in a city.
Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.
Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.
The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
The trick is to make sure you don't die waiting for prosperity to come.
Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

More bodies were roughly shoved in beside me.

You should not live one way in private, another in public.
Good soldiers never pass up a chance to eat or sleep. They never know how much they'll be called on to do before the next chance.
I cried out and my own voice was muffled by the hood.
We cannot deny the facts of nature, but we should certainly try to improve on them.
She got her looks from her father. He's a plastic surgeon.
Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.
Americans are benevolently ignorant about Canada, while Canadians are malevolently well informed about the United States.

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

Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to be caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self.
The creative is the place where no one else has ever been. You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover will be yourself.
I'd never looked down the barrel of a gun before, but everything you've heard about the experience is true.
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.
All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.
I didn't even breathe.
Deeds, not words shall speak me.

Australia is sometimes called ?the lucky country?.

When they discover the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to discover they are not it.
Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.
You never know how a horse will pull until you hook him up to a heavy load.
Never rely on the glory of the morning nor the smiles of your mother-in-law.
To achieve great things we must live as though we were never going to die.
From the moment I picked up your book until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.
Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.

With the election, however, Republican domination of the South and radical rule of the party were definitely ended.

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.
Deeds, not words shall speak me.
I like coincidences. They make me wonder about destiny, and whether free will is an illusion or just a matter of perspective. They let me speculate on the idea of some master plan that, from time to time, we're allowed to see out of the corner of our eye.
When you go into court you are putting your fate into the hands of twelve people who weren't smart enough to get out of jury duty.
Why the hell would terrorists kidnap a bunch of high school students?
What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?
TV is chewing gum for the eyes.

They have done this more or less every 5th of November since 1605.

You should not live one way in private, another in public.
You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play.
The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it.
There are always survivors at a massacre. Among the victors, if nowhere else.
There is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income.
Now we were descending just as steeply.
I have been through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.

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

Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.
Memory feeds imagination.
Order is not pressure which is imposed on society from without, but an equilibrium which is set up from within.
What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?
Nothing is impossible. Some things are just less likely than others.
Having a holiday weekend without a family member felt like putting on a sweater that had an extra arm.

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.

Never make a defense or an apology until you are accused.
The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.
Realize that true happiness lies within you. Waste no time and effort searching for peace and contentment and joy in the world outside. Remember that there is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving. Reach out. Share. Smile. Hug. Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself.
It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
Anyone who has gumption knows what it is, and anyone who hasn't can never know what it is. So there is no need of defining it.
When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest.
One thing I've learned in all these years is not to make love when you really don't feel it; there's probably nothing worse you can do to yourself than that.

Her room is very cool and light, there are plenty of flowers here, as she has a green thumb.

We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
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.
One thing I've learned in all these years is not to make love when you really don't feel it; there's probably nothing worse you can do to yourself than that.
TV is chewing gum for the eyes.
I barely had time to register them before those rifles were pointed at me.
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.
Van was screaming something and Jolu was shouting and I looked at them for a second and that was when someone put a coarse.

The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.

One thing I've learned in all these years is not to make love when you really don't feel it; there's probably nothing worse you can do to yourself than that.
Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.
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.
Our patience will achieve more than our force.
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.
There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.
Order is not pressure which is imposed on society from without, but an equilibrium which is set up from within.

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

Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn whatever state I am in, therin to be content
A smiling face is half the meal.
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.
So little time and so little to do.
A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead. A man with ambition and love for his blessings here on earth is ever so alive. Having been alive, it won't be so hard in the end to lie down and rest.
If my mental map was right, we were heading down to Fisherman's Wharf.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.

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

Nothing is as simple as we hope it will be.
The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said.
All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.
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.
Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
Never despair; but if you do, work on in despair.
Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers.

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 claustrophob

Look at all the sentences which seem true and question them.
People fail forward to success.
It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.
Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
Each individual woman's body demands to be accepted on its own terms.
When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.
Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.

They call for MDCs to use their economic systems to reward population regulation and sustainable forms of economic growth instead of continuing their unsustainable forms of economic growth and encouraging LDCs to follow this eventually unsustainable and d

I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.
For the most part, fear is nothing but an illusion. When you share it with someone else, it tends to disappear.
In America, they want you to accomplish these great feats, to pull off these David Copperfield-type stunts. You want me to be great, but you don't ever want me to say I'm great?
I felt the doors open near me, and then saw a confusion of booted feet moving close by.
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.
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.

La Follette balked at the party's conservatism and when the regulars renominated Taft in 1912, most of the dissidents withdrew and in the Bull

Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.
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.
Write a wise saying and your name will live forever.
There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.
There are a terrible lot of lies going around the world, and the worst of it is half of them are true.
Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.
No.

It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.

There is an alchemy in sorrow. It can be transmuted into wisdom, which, if it does not bring joy, can yet bring happiness.
Be more prompt to go to a friend in adversity than in prosperity.
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.
Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. And man can be as big as he wants. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.
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'.
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.
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.

Another tradition is to send cristmas cards.

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.
Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.
Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.
Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.
I believe that every now and then it is important to laugh at ourselves and take a lighter approach to our life conditions.
There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.
One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.

As one of my friends says if you are not a handicapped person you are a really lucky and happy one.

I was in total darkness now and I strained my ears to hear what was going on with my friends.
I'd never looked down the barrel of a gun before, but everything you've heard about the experience is true.
Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinions at all.
It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
There ain't no free lunches in this country. And don't go spending your whole life commiserating that you got raw deals. You've got to say, 'I think that if I keep working at this and want it bad enough I can have it.'
You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.
I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.

četvrtak, 07.10.2010.

Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.

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.
Seize opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind.
While we have the gift of life, it seems to me that only tragedy is to allow part of us to die - whether it is our spirit, our creativity, or our glorious uniqueness.
The strongest possible piece of advice I would give any young woman is: Don't screw around, and don't smoke.
Have patience awhile; slanders are not long-lived. Truth is the child of time; erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee.
Be sincere; be brief; be seated.
Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anyone else.

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?

Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid.
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.
Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.
The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
Summer afternoon - Summer afternoon... the two most beautiful words in the English language.
Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.
Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present.

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

All movements go too far.
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.
Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.
It's all right to have butterflies in your stomach. Just get them to fly in formation.
Hope is tomorrow's veneer over today's disappointment.
To achieve great things we must live as though we were never going to die.

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 realizin

Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life.
Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
Let me tell you, quite frankly, it took a while and a lot of therapy to get here.
If you don't know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else.
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 undertaking of a new action brings new strength.

All things are difficult before they are easy.
He had learned over the years that poor people did not feel so poor when allowed to give occasionally.
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.
I don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is a language I don't understand.
Summer afternoon - Summer afternoon... the two most beautiful words in the English language.
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.
When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest.

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

It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.
Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it.
More bodies were roughly shoved in beside me.
The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.
Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid.
On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily lying down.
It's very hard to take yourself too seriously when you look at the world from outer space.

srijeda, 06.10.2010.

His work was translated into Latin and Arabic, and was first printed in mass quantity in 1482, ten years before Columbus, but 1800 years AFTER it was written! From that point until the early 1900's, The Elements was considered by far the best geometry tex

The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
So quick and so fiercely I barely had time to gasp before it was locked on me.
The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco.
I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
The faceless, eyeless armed man above me kept his gun very level.
He attacked everything in life with a mix of extrordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which was which.
Learning to live in the present moment is part of the path of joy.

There are also those who like semi-detached houses or, as the Americans call them, duplexes.

Cheerfulness, it would appear, is a matter which depends fully as much on the state of things within, as on the state of things without and around us.
I 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.
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.
Be careful that victories do not carry the seed of future defeats.
Order is not pressure which is imposed on society from without, but an equilibrium which is set up from within.
He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.
Each body has its art...

subota, 02.10.2010.

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

A joke's a very serious thing.
Talking with you is sort of the conversational equivalent of an out of body experience.
Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.
To err is human, but to really foul things up requires a computer.
No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.
I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.
Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.

A joke's a very serious thing.

No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.
O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.
But be, as you have been, my happiness...
The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
I phoned my dad to tell him I had stopped smoking. He called me a quitter.
Laughter is supposed to be the best medicine, however, it should never be at the expense of someone?s feelings or ignoring truth.
We rarely think people have good sense unless they agree with us.

If nothing is done about it, one day nothing will be able to live in the seas.

There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.
The hands behind me gave me another shove.
One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.
Temptation rarely comes in working hours. It is in their leisure time that men are made or marred.
Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth.

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

My friend is one... who take me for what I am.
Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
I have always felt that a politician is to be judged by the animosities he excites among his opponents.
In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.
I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside 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.
When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.

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

The average person thinks he isn't.
Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far.
The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said.
It's very hard to take yourself too seriously when you look at the world from outer space.
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.
Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy.
Many people weigh the guilt they will feel against the pleasure of the forbidden action they want to take.

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?

So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.
A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a man of wit, and a pebble in the hand of a fool.
Sometimes love will pick you up by the short hairs...and jerk the heck out of you.
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.
It is not enough to aim; you must hit.
No.
Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less.

What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few; and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.
It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.
Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.
Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.
One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.
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!
Nothing changes your opinion of a friend so surely as success - yours or his.

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

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.
Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.
What's another word for Thesaurus?
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.
What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?
The mellow sweetness of pumpkin pie off a prison spoon is something you will never forget.
God creates men, but they choose each other.

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.

Deeds, not words shall speak me.
I'd never really believed in terrorists before.
As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.
Having a holiday weekend without a family member felt like putting on a sweater that had an extra arm.
Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.
It's important to begin a search on a full stomach.
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.

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

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 great art of giving consists in this: the gift should cost very little and yet be greatly coveted, so that it may be the more highly appreciated.
When someone does something good, applaud! You will make two people happy.
I've been on a diet for two weeks and all I've lost is two weeks.
When I came back to Dublin I was courtmartialed in my absence and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.
Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives.
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.

Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.

Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
Is love supposed to last throughout all time, or is it like trains changing at random stops. If I loved her, how could I leave her? If I felt that way then, how come I don't feel anything now?
If you want to be respected, you must respect yourself.
Keep your broken arm inside your sleeve.
The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.
Self-importance is our greatest enemy. Think about it - what weakens us is feeling offended by the deeds and misdeeds of our fellowmen. Our self-importance requires that we spend most of our lives offended by someone.
Try to put your happiness before anyone else's, because you may never have done so in your entire life, if you really think about it, if you are really honest with yourself.

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

The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value.
The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility.
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.
Our patience will achieve more than our force.
Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.

Our patience will achieve more than our force.

Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.
I don't think about risks much. I just do what I want to do. If you gotta go, you gotta go.
I cried out and my own voice was muffled by the hood.
The more freedom we enjoy, the greater the responsibility we bear, toward others as well as ourselves.
The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.
The 'Net is a waste of time, and that's exactly what's right about it.
The summer night is like a perfection of thought.

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

The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth that it prevents you from achieving.
Know, first, who you are; and then adorn yourself accordingly.
Even the fear of death is nothing compared to the fear of not having lived authentically and fully.
Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.
He attacked everything in life with a mix of extrordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which was which.
Many people weigh the guilt they will feel against the pleasure of the forbidden action they want to take.
You have no control over what the other guy does. You only have control over what you do.

When should a person seek help for a problem related to his or her drinking?

The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.
Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster. Your life will never be the same again.
Americans are benevolently ignorant about Canada, while Canadians are malevolently well informed about the United States.
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.
Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.
The most erroneous stories are those we think we know best - and therefore never scrutinize or question.

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

Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose.
You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.
Life is consciousness.
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.
All programmers are playwrights and all computers are lousy actors.
Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.
They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.

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

It's the opinion of some that crops could be grown on the moon. Which raises the fear that it may not be long before we're paying somebody not to.
I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
Each body has its art...
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
Nothing is as simple as we hope it will be.
Most advances in science come when a person for one reason or another is forced to change fields.
His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even... knowledge, was foolproof.

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

There are no wise few. Every aristocracy that has ever existed has behaved, in all essential points, exactly like a small mob.
Winning is important to me, but what brings me real joy is the experience of being fully engaged in whatever I'm doing.
As a scientist, I am not sure anymore that life can be reduced to a class struggle, to dialectical materialism, or any set of formulas. Life is spontaneous and it is unpredictable, it is magical. I think that we have struggled so hard with the tangible that we have forgotten the intangible.
I phoned my dad to tell him I had stopped smoking. He called me a quitter.
Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.
It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.
Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it.

It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.

Summer afternoon - Summer afternoon... the two most beautiful words in the English language.
We cannot destroy kindred: Our chains stretch a little sometimes, but they never break.
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.
Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. And man can be as big as he wants. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.
Fall is my favorite season in Los Angeles, watching the birds change color and fall from the trees.
What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?
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.

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

Someone went upside my head again.
Joy is prayer - Joy is strength - Joy is love - Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
Money frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy.
Do something. If it doesn't work, do something else. No idea is too crazy.
It felt like they used a baton or something -- it was harder than anyone had ever hit me in the head before.
There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth.
Art is science made clear.

They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.

Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch.
The summer night is like a perfection of thought.
You freeze where you are, time stops, and your heart thunders in your ears.
Somebody has to do something, and it's just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.
We may not imagine how our lives could be more frustrating and complex--but Congress can.
Seize opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind.
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.

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.
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far.
The better part of valor is discretion, in the which better part I have saved my life.
God creates men, but they choose each other.
My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists.
The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.

Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus, but use all gently. For in the very torrent, tempest, and as I may say, whirlwind of passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance that may give it smoothness.

A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead. A man with ambition and love for his blessings here on earth is ever so alive. Having been alive, it won't be so hard in the end to lie down and rest.
Our lives teach us who we are.
Normal is not something to aspire to, it's something to get away from.
Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
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."
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.
In America, they want you to accomplish these great feats, to pull off these David Copperfield-type stunts. You want me to be great, but you don't ever want me to say I'm great?

More bodies were roughly shoved in beside me.

I think it is good that books still exist, but they do make me sleepy.
Sorrow was like the wind. It came in gusts.
A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge.
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.
You freeze where you are, time stops, and your heart thunders in your ears.
Assuming either the Left Wing or the Right Wing gained control of the country, it would probably fly around in circles.

After the overtune the curtain went up.

If the only prayer you ever say in your whole life is "thank you," that would suffice.
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.
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.
Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves.
Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.
Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.

Agatha Christie created two major characters for her stories.

So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.
Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
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.
Some people make headlines while others make history.
She got her looks from her father. He's a plastic surgeon.
What children take from us, they give?We become people who feel more deeply, question more deeply, hurt more deeply, and love more deeply.

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

The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth that it prevents you from achieving.
Why do writers write? Because it isn't there.
Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.
A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.
An idea is salvation by imagination.
Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.
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.

Deeds, not words shall speak me.

Each individual woman's body demands to be accepted on its own terms.
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.
Worrying about them always struck me as about as useful as worrying about getting hit by lightning.
At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.
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.
We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.
Hollywood is a place where they place you under contract instead of under observation.

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.

The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star.
An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought.
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'.
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.
By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd be grown up.
Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.
It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.

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

There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
A moment later, I caught my breath, but I didn't say anything.
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.
It is easier to exclude harmful passions than to rule them, and to deny them admittance than to control them after they have been admitted.
He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.
Good soldiers never pass up a chance to eat or sleep. They never know how much they'll be called on to do before the next chance.

I know all the famous script writers, producers and cameramen.

There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.
She got her looks from her father. He's a plastic surgeon.
The Americans have need of the telephone, but we do not. We have plenty of messenger boys.
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
Even the fear of death is nothing compared to the fear of not having lived authentically and fully.
There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?
The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.

Sorrow was like the wind. It came in gusts.

Learning to live in the present moment is part of the path of joy.
Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.
Sorrow was like the wind. It came in gusts.
What some people mistake for the high cost of living is really the cost of high living.
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
There is no stigma attached to recognizing a bad decision in time to install a better one.

Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others.

Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.
There is surely a piece of divinity in us, something that was before the elements, and owes no homage unto the sun.
Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them.
Maybe the most any of us can expect of ourselves isn't perfection but progress.
People fail forward to success.
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.

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

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.
All great truths begin as blasphemies.
Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards.
You can only cure retail but you can prevent .
Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis.
The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.
Anger is never without Reason, but seldom with a good One.

He had learned over the years that poor people did not feel so poor when allowed to give occasionally.

If you scatter thorns, don't go barefoot.
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 have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.
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.
Americans are benevolently ignorant about Canada, while Canadians are malevolently well informed about the United States.
Why the hell would terrorists kidnap a bunch of high school students?
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.

petak, 01.10.2010.

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

As I neared her, I bent to help her up, and was nearly knocked over her.
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.
Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.
I shouted, and earned a hard thump on my head for my trouble.
I got up the third step and reached for the fourth, but it wasn't there.
My mother loved children -- she would have given anything if I had been one.
My wish is to ride the tempest, tame the waves, kill the sharks. I will not resign myself...

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

Good taste is the enemy of comedy.
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.
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?
I have lost friends, some by death... others through sheer inability to cross the street.
Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.
Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.

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

If there's one thing I know it's God does love a good joke.
Maybe they were terrorists!
Depend not on fortune, but on conduct.
Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.
The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.

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

He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.
Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.
Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.
Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.
The strongest possible piece of advice I would give any young woman is: Don't screw around, and don't smoke.
One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.
America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.

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

She got her looks from her father. He's a plastic surgeon.
Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity.
'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.
What children take from us, they give?We become people who feel more deeply, question more deeply, hurt more deeply, and love more deeply.
He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.
By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd be grown up.
Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.

In the period that followed, the two parties differed little in their programs.

Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others.
Obscurity is a good thing. You can fail in obscurity. It removes the fear of failure.
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.
An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.
For visions come not to polluted eyes.
Seize opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind.
As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.

The children will sing:" Remember, remember the 5th of November; Gun powder, treason and plot". And they will ask passers-by for "a penny for the Guy" But the children with "the Guy" are not likely to know who or what day they are celebrating.

Paradise is exactly like where you are right now... only much, much better.
The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.
Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid.
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.
Never rely on the glory of the morning nor the smiles of your mother-in-law.
Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.
I was gratified to be able to answer promptly. I said I don't know.