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srijeda, 27.07.2011.

Do not believe that he who seeks to comfort you lives untroubled among the simple and quiet words that sometimes do you good. His life has much difficulty... Were it otherwise he would never have been able to find those words.

Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.
Sometimes love will pick you up by the short hairs...and jerk the heck out of you.
When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest.
Be a good listener. Your ears will never get you in trouble.
Who were these clowns?
It is better to wear out than to rust out.
Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.

I am sure that books play a very important role in my life.

We cannot destroy kindred: Our chains stretch a little sometimes, but they never break.
More movement, and the sense of bodies being shackled in alongside of 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.
Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.
I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty... But I am too busy thinking about myself.
Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.

Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.

All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance.
Anger is never without Reason, but seldom with a good One.
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'.
Assuming either the Left Wing or the Right Wing gained control of the country, it would probably fly around in circles.
Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone.
There is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income.
I know that you believe that you understood what you think I said, but I am not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.

When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers.

What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.
A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of.
There were millions of ways that the world could kill me.
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.
To try to be better is to be better.
I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers.
Summer afternoon - Summer afternoon... the two most beautiful words in the English language.
Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.
This world is given as the prize for the men in earnest; and that which is true of this world, is truer still of the world to come.
Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousand of miles and all the years you have lived.
I heard Jolu respond, then felt the thump he was dealt, too.
Someone went upside my head again.

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

The world tolerates conceit from those who are successful, but not from anybody else.
It is impossible to walk rapidly and be unhappy.
Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself...True happiness is born of self-reliance.
Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper.
A man can do all things if he but wills them.
Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.
The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.

Be thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till all commend.

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.
Doubt 'til thou canst doubt no more...doubt is thought and thought is life. Systems which end doubt are devices for drugging thought.
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.
More movement, and the sense of bodies being shackled in alongside of me.
Nothing is so awesomely unfamiliar as the familiar that discloses itself at the end of a journey.
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.
It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.

I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.

It?s like your batteries get low, and you need to charge them on someone else?s story.
Better by far you should forget and smile than you should remember and be sad.
Never despair; but if you do, work on in despair.
It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.
Americans are benevolently ignorant about Canada, while Canadians are malevolently well informed about the United States.
We rarely think people have good sense unless they agree with us.
Never let the demands of tomorrow interfere with the pleasures and excitement of today.

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.

Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality.
I've been on a diet for two weeks and all I've lost is two weeks.
We need anything politically important rationed out like Pez: small, sweet, and coming out of a funny, plastic head.
Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives.
But be, as you have been, my happiness...
A hobby a day keeps the doldrums away.
Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.

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

Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn't block traffic.
When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers.
Everybody likes to go their own way--to choose their own time and manner of devotion.
You always pass failure on the way to success.
You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence.
If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.
Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.

Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.

O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.
I was in total darkness now and I strained my ears to hear what was going on with my friends.
Sometimes love will pick you up by the short hairs...and jerk the heck out of you.
Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.
Humor is also a way of saying something serious.
Anger at lies lasts forever. Anger at truth can't last.
Take a two-mile walk every morning before breakfast.

Kalgorlie still exports some gold, but new gold of Western Australia is wheat.

You can have it all. You just can't have it all at once.
I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.
That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.
If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk?
Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.
Darryl wasn't in good shape -- he was white-faced and panting.
I've been on a diet for two weeks and all I've lost is two weeks.

Equal opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent.

By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd be grown up.
Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack.
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
Late to bed and late to wake will keep you long on money and short on mistakes.
You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are; but you must approach each man by the right door.
All great truths begin as blasphemies.
Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.

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.

It's all right to have butterflies in your stomach. Just get them to fly in formation.
The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.
Sorrow was like the wind. It came in gusts.
Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
Seize opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind.
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.

Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.

Do not be awe struck by other people and try to copy them. Nobody can be you as efficiently as you can.
Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.
Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality.
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'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 we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.
Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.

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

Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.
For me, it's that I contributed, ... That I'm on this planet doing some good and making people happy. That's to me the most important thing, that my hour of television is positive and upbeat and an antidote for all the negative stuff going on in life.
I don't generally feel anything until noon; then it's time for my nap.
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 whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.
Is there life before death?
Temptation rarely comes in working hours. It is in their leisure time that men are made or marred.

Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.

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.
Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality... the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.
Let not the sands of time get in your lunch.
Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, not swallowed.
Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.

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

Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers.
When all is said and done, the weather and love are the two elements about which one can never be sure.
At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.
Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality.
There were millions of ways that the world could kill me.
Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
Where we have strong emotions, we're liable to fool ourselves.

I nearly fell again, but new hands grabbed me from in front and dragged me down a steel floor and then forced me to my knees and locked my hands to something behind me.

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.
Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.
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 will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars.
Van's sweater was soaked in blood.
I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy!
Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.

The roses, the lovely notes, the dining and dancing are all welcome and splendid. But when the Godiva is gone, the gift of real love is having someone who'll go the distance with you. Someone who, when the wedding day limo breaks down, is willing to share

Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law?
It is not much for its beauty that makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanates from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.
I got up the third step and reached for the fourth, but it wasn't there.
Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers.
There are always survivors at a massacre. Among the victors, if nowhere else.
Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right - especially when one is right.

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

The strongest possible piece of advice I would give any young woman is: Don't screw around, and don't smoke.
Each body has its art...
Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present.
We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe.
Hearing voices no one else can hear isn't a good sign, even in the wizarding world.
People fail forward to success.
Worries go down better with soup than without.

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.

Oh, I don't blame Congress. If I had $600 billion at my disposal, I'd be irresponsible, too.
You couldn't even prove the White House staff sane beyond a reasonable doubt.
Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn't block traffic.
I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.
I don't like composers who think. It gets in the way of their plagiarism.
Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.
Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.

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.

Doubt 'til thou canst doubt no more...doubt is thought and thought is life. Systems which end doubt are devices for drugging thought.
Someone's boring me. I think it's me.
Make hunger thy sauce, as a medicine for health.
Sorrow was like the wind. It came in gusts.
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.
You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans.
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.

Diseases brought by settlers caused many deaths among the aborigines and now there are only about 60 000 of them.

If it weren't for baseball, many kids wouldn't know what a millionaire looked like.
When someone does something good, applaud! You will make two people happy.
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.
To repeat what others have said, requires education; to challenge it, requires brains.
It is only possible to live happily ever after on a day-to-day basis.
I gathered we were headed over Nob Hill, and from the angle, it seemed we were taking one of the steeper routes.
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.

petak, 22.07.2011.

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

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.
You should not live one way in private, another in public.
Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.
When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.
Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
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.'
There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.

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

Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.
Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half the time.
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.
I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy!
There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.
Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch.
The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.

Swift's democratic ideas expressed in the book had a great influence on the English writers who came after Swift.

A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a man of wit, and a pebble in the hand of a fool.
Never despair; but if you do, work on in despair.
Americans are benevolently ignorant about Canada, while Canadians are malevolently well informed about the United States.
The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.
Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.
The summer night is like a perfection of thought.
There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?

Look at all the sentences which seem true and question them.

Best wide-angle lens? Two steps backward. Look for the 'ah-ha'.
Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money.
There is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income.
Without the capacity to provide its own information, the mind drifts into randomness.
I'm going to stay in show business until I'm the last one left.

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

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?
To achieve great things we must live as though we were never going to die.
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.
My wish is to ride the tempest, tame the waves, kill the sharks. I will not resign myself...
The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.
A minute's success pays the failure of years.
Where facts are few, experts are many.

It gives you a unique chance to link up with authors who lived hundreds and thousands years ago.

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.
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
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.
But be, as you have been, my happiness...
Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives.
I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.
You always pass failure on the way to success.

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

We rocked to a stop still on a downslope.
There were millions of ways that the world could kill me.
The Past is to be respected and acknoledged, but not to be worshiped. It is our future in which we will find our greatness.
Keep cool and you command everybody.
Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.
The strongest possible piece of advice I would give any young woman is: Don't screw around, and don't smoke.
Keep cool and you command everybody.

The human race ocupies a position of servility there and a noble race of horces rules the country by reason and justice.

Statistics: The only science that enables different experts using the same figures to draw different conclusions.
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
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.
Reveal not every secret you have to a friend, for how can you tell but that friend may hereafter become an enemy. And bring not all mischief you are able to upon an enemy, for he may one day become your friend.
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.
At the mention of the word mace, the guy looked scared and kind of melted back, though the crowd kept him moving forward.
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' (I found it!) but 'That's funny ...'

Agatha Christie created two major characters for her stories.

Somebody has to do something, and it's just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.
When everyone is against you, it means that you are absolutely wrong-- or absolutely right.
Nothing is so good for an ignorant man as silence; and if he was sensible of this he would not be ignorant.
Where facts are few, experts are many.
I like to play blackjack. I'm not addicted to gambling, I'm addicted to sitting in a semi-circle.
Nothing is impossible. Some things are just less likely than others.
The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.

Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

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.
Rest is the sweet sauce of labor.
You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable.
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.
Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.

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

Innovation has nothing to do with how many R&D dollars you have. When Apple came up with the Mac, IBM was spending at least 100 times more on R&D. It's not about money. It's about the people you have, how you're led, and how much you get it.
The car slewed to a stop and only then did I notice that it wasn't a cop car, ambulance or fire-engine.
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.
All the world's a cage.
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.
Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.
Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives.

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

The great thing about a computer notebook is that no matter how much you stuff into it, it doesn't get bigger or heavier.
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few; and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.
My head rang like a gong.
He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.
Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.
Nothing is as simple as we hope it will be.

Blackpool is not officially asafe.

Sometimes you can't see yourself clearly until you see yourself through the eyes of others.
Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
Obscurity is a good thing. You can fail in obscurity. It removes the fear of failure.
Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.
We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it.
A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a man of wit, and a pebble in the hand of a fool.
Part of being creative is learning how to protect your freedom. That includes freedom from avarice.

The better part of valor is discretion, in the which better part I have saved my life.

I was gratified to be able to answer promptly. I said I don't know.
The hands behind me gave me another shove.
We cannot deny the facts of nature, but we should certainly try to improve on them.
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.
There were millions of ways that the world could kill me.
I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.
Beware the pull on your heartstrings -- it's often the pursestrings that are actually being reached for.

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

Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far.
When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.
Learning to live in the present moment is part of the path of joy.
The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.
Better by far you should forget and smile than you should remember and be sad.
You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.

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

There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers.
All movements go too far.
Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
For the night was not impartial. No, the night loved some more than others, served some more than others.
Go through your phone book, call people and ask them to drive you to the airport. The ones who will drive you are your true friends. The rest aren't bad people; they're just acquaintances.
The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value.
You can only cure retail but you can prevent .

In the 2000 elections, the party's presidential nominee, George W. Bush appeared generally to lead in the polls in what ultimately became a popular-vote loss to Democrat Al Gore.

Things won are done; joy's soul lies in the doing.
A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.
In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from.
Nothing is said that has not been said before.
We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it.
I shouted, and earned a hard thump on my head for my trouble.
The mellow sweetness of pumpkin pie off a prison spoon is something you will never forget.

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

Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.
Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.
Memory feeds imagination.
All great truths begin as blasphemies.
I had no idea how much of this was making it through the muffling bag.
The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.

The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.

Do what you feel in your heart to be right - for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't.
The 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.
In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the next meal would come from.
Worries go down better with soup than without.
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.
Make hunger thy sauce, as a medicine for health.
So quick and so fiercely I barely had time to gasp before it was locked on me.

Late to bed and late to wake will keep you long on money and short on mistakes.

Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.
When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.
The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.
Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.
If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
Optimism and hope are our best friends. Letýs reach out and Laugh together at our confounding traits and still, letýs keep in mind that our sympt oms and traits are very real with consequences, never to be underestimated or discounted.
Doubt 'til thou canst doubt no more...doubt is thought and thought is life. Systems which end doubt are devices for drugging thought.

Now Washington is the residents of the president and the congress.

It?s like your batteries get low, and you need to charge them on someone else?s story.
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.
A doctor saves lives -- It's up to people to create lives that are worth saving.
For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
Dance is the hidden language of the soul.
Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives.

Academic freedom right of scholars to pursue research, to teach, and to publish without control or restraint from the institutions that employ them.

I don't like composers who think. It gets in the way of their plagiarism.
People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.
Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack.
The best way out is always through.
Even the best of friends need time apart.
My wish is to ride the tempest, tame the waves, kill the sharks. I will not resign myself...
I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.

While alcoholism is a treatable disease, a cure is not yet available.

The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.
Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life.
Sorrow was like the wind. It came in gusts.
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.
If you really do put a small value upon yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price.
You must not think me necessarily foolish because I am facetious, nor will I consider you necessarily wise because you are grave.
Use what you have to run toward your best - that's how I now live my life.

The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.

Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
Play: Work that you enjoy doing for nothing.
The summer night is like a perfection of thought.
Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers.
My friends are my estate.
It's important to begin a search on a full stomach.
Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.

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

Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinions at all.
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'.
It is not enough to aim; you must hit.
Assuming either the Left Wing or the Right Wing gained control of the country, it would probably fly around in circles.
You cannot be mad at somebody who makes you laugh - it's as simple as that.
Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
There are a terrible lot of lies going around the world, and the worst of it is half of them are true.

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

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.
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.
A poem is no place for an idea.
If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play at it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf.
Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.
The hands behind me gave me another shove.
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.

In 1964 the conservative wing of the party engineered the nomination of Senator Barry Goldwater , who was, however, defeated in a landslide by Lyndon B. Johnson.

No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.
We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.
It is only possible to live happily ever after on a day-to-day basis.
Obscurity is a good thing. You can fail in obscurity. It removes the fear of failure.
Maybe they were terrorists!
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.

We cannot destroy kindred: Our chains stretch a little sometimes, but they never break.

The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.
I've never quite believed that one chance is all I get.
A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down.
What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!
It is wonderful how quickly you get used to things, even the most astonishing.
Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.
He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.

I was sick of cars driving right past me.

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.
Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.
An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought.
Sooner or later, we've got to work at it, no matter how many other careers we've had or wanted.
The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.
Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.
Everybody likes to go their own way--to choose their own time and manner of devotion.

Order is not pressure which is imposed on society from without, but an equilibrium which is set up from within.

Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.
He who is not very strong in memory should not meddle with lying.
If your parents never had children, chances are you won't, either.
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'.
Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
Obscurity is a good thing. You can fail in obscurity. It removes the fear of failure.
The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.

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

Keep true to the dreams of thy youth.
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.
An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought.
You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
We are made to persist. That's how we find out who we are.
For visions come not to polluted eyes.
God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.

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

The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.
Beware the pull on your heartstrings -- it's often the pursestrings that are actually being reached for.
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!'
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.
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?
Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth?Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.
The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.

As a result, you may feel that to seek help is to admit some type of shameful defect in yourself. In fact, however, alcoholism is a disease that is no more a sign of weakness than is asthma or diabetes.

A moment later, I caught my breath, but I didn't say anything.
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.
The most erroneous stories are those we think we know best - and therefore never scrutinize or question.
The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself.
Time is that quality of nature which keeps events from happening all at once. Lately it doesn't seem to be working.
There ain't no free lunches in this country. And don't go spending your whole life commiserating that you got raw deals. You've got to say, 'I think that if I keep working at this and want it bad enough I can have it.'
I 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!'

Each passenger of more than 2 years of age has a free luggage allowance.

The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.
I am not young enough to know everything.
The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is inefficiency. An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty.
Assuming either the Left Wing or the Right Wing gained control of the country, it would probably fly around in circles.
I went up the stairs cautiously, not able to use my hands.
Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.
Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone.

To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.

In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from.
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.
It's the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion.
An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.
You never know how a horse will pull until you hook him up to a heavy load.
Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.
History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.

Overpopulation, pollution and energy consumption have created such planet-wide problems as massive deforestation, ozone depletion, acid rains and the global warming that is believed to be coused by the greenhouse effect.

Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.
The lion and the calf shall lie down together but the calf won't get much sleep.
I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
I'd learned my lesson.
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.
When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers.
Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

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.

Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy those are who already possess it.
The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too.
Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.
The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star.
It's all right to have butterflies in your stomach. Just get them to fly in formation.
When you close your doors, and make darkness within, remember never to say that you are alone, for you are not alone; nay, God is within, and your genius is within. And what need have they of light to see what you are doing?
I 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'd learned my lesson.

In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.
My eyes swam and watered and I literally couldn't breathe through the pain.
We may not imagine how our lives could be more frustrating and complex--but Congress can.
You cannot make a man by standing a sheep on its hind legs. But by standing a flock of sheep in that position you can make a crowd of men.
The mellow sweetness of pumpkin pie off a prison spoon is something you will never forget.
In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.
I nearly fell again, but new hands grabbed me from in front and dragged me down a steel floor and then forced me to my knees and locked my hands to something behind me.

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

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.
Do not believe that he who seeks to comfort you lives untroubled among the simple and quiet words that sometimes do you good. His life has much difficulty... Were it otherwise he would never have been able to find those words.
I've never quite believed that one chance is all I get.
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.
Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less.

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

Do something. If it doesn't work, do something else. No idea is too crazy.
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.
You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play.
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.
Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anyone else.
I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for; perfection is God's business.
I have very strong feelings about how you lead your life. You always look ahead, you never look back.

I'm moving, but don't worry! Someone once told me we're all on the same planet, so I'll be okay!

I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!
Everybody likes a kidder, but nobody lends him money.
People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.
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.
Most advances in science come when a person for one reason or another is forced to change fields.
The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself.
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.

With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.

I 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.
Do not envy a sinner; you don't know what disaster awaits him.
The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.
I'm moving, but don't worry! Someone once told me we're all on the same planet, so I'll be okay!
Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself.
If you really do put a small value upon yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price.

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

Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.
None are so busy as the fool and knave.
It is only possible to live happily ever after on a day-to-day basis.
A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money.
The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said.
I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.

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.

I wanted to flag you down because my friend was bleeding. Someone stabbed him."
Howard Hughes was able to afford the luxury of madness, like a man who not only thinks he is Napoleon but hires an army to prove it.
The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.
Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that of another.
Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.
Bacchus hath drowned more men than Neptune.
What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty.

There is a tragic flaw in our precious Constitution, and I don't know what can be done to fix it. This is it: Only nut cases want to be president.

Be more prompt to go to a friend in adversity than in prosperity.
The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry is like the potato - the best part under ground.
If your parents never had children, chances are you won't, either.
Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.
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.
Like anyone else, there are days I feel beautiful and days I don't, and when I don't, I do something about it.
I 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.

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

Peace is when time doesn't matter as it passes by.
We learn something every day, and lots of times it's that what we learned the day before was wrong.
Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.
Whatever you fear most has no power - it is your fear that has the power.
My head rang like a gong.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
I never know how much of what I say is true.

It's important to begin a search on a full stomach.

Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
When I came back to Dublin I was courtmartialed in my absence and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.
There 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.'
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!
Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of.
For visions come not to polluted eyes.

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

The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
Paradise is exactly like where you are right now... only much, much better.
There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.
I don't like composers who think. It gets in the way of their plagiarism.
I guess we'd be living in a boring, perfect world if everybody wished everybody else well.
The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.
Sometimes the cure for restlessness is rest.

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

I am here for a purpose and that purpose is to grow into a mountain, not to shrink to a grain of sand. Henceforth will I apply ALL my efforts to become the highest mountain of all and I will strain my potential until it cries for mercy.
It's a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn't want to hear.
Never despair; but if you do, work on in despair.
Be sincere; be brief; be seated.
A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top .
The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.
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.

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

Temptation rarely comes in working hours. It is in their leisure time that men are made or marred.
What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.
Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.
This world is given as the prize for the men in earnest; and that which is true of this world, is truer still of the world to come.
One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.
I define comfort as self-acceptance. When we finally learn that self-care begins and ends with ourselves, we no longer demand sustenance and happiness from others.

A minute's success pays the failure of years.

I have very strong feelings about how you lead your life. You always look ahead, you never look back.
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.
Everybody likes to go their own way--to choose their own time and manner of devotion.
I was pushed roughly but dispassionately onto my stomach and something went twice around my wrists and then tightened up as well, feeling like baling wire and biting cruelly.
We cannot destroy kindred: Our chains stretch a little sometimes, but they never break.
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.
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.

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 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.
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.
The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
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.
Depend not on fortune, but on conduct.
I stand in awe of my body.
If you don't know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else.

An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought.

The best of us must sometimes eat our words.
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.
Everybody likes a kidder, but nobody lends him money.
Best wide-angle lens? Two steps backward. Look for the 'ah-ha'.
All great truths begin as blasphemies.
I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.
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.

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.

I had no idea how much of this was making it through the muffling bag.
Whatever you fear most has no power - it is your fear that has the power.
An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought.
When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.
I used to believe that marriage would diminish me, reduce my options. That you had to be someone less to live with someone else when, of course, you have to be someone more.
I don't generally feel anything until noon; then it's time for my nap.
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.

These forests are full of wonderful flowers and interesting animals.

A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money.
You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are; but you must approach each man by the right door.
A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.
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.
Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.
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.
It is not enough to aim; you must hit.

The New Year is at midsummer, midwinter is in June.

He who is not very strong in memory should not meddle with lying.
Learning to live in the present moment is part of the path of joy.
Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.
Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.
When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest.
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.
Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.

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

I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate.
O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.
Even the best of friends need time apart.
Truly great madness cannot be achieved without significant intelligence.
The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.
I was gratified to be able to answer promptly. I said I don't know.
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.

Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you.

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.
Never rely on the glory of the morning nor the smiles of your mother-in-law.
Is there life before death?
Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.
Life engenders life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.
There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?
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 trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.

Maybe the most any of us can expect of ourselves isn't perfection but progress.
Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose.
The art of dining well is no slight art, the pleasure not a slight pleasure.
Things won are done; joy's soul lies in the doing.
Someone dragged me by my arms out onto the road, then shoved me, stumbling, down a paved road.
The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.
We do not believe if we do not live and work according to our belief.

Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards.

There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?
Do not be awe struck by other people and try to copy them. Nobody can be you as efficiently as you can.
We are made to persist. That's how we find out who we are.
You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.
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.
You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.