What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?
They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.
How could you be a Great Man if history brought you no Great Events, or brought you to them at the wrong time, too young, too old?
The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.
When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time.
A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of.
The car rocked back and forth and tipped uphill.
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
The 'Net is a waste of time, and that's exactly what's right about it.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
I gathered we were headed over Nob Hill, and from the angle, it seemed we were taking one of the steeper routes.
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.
You cannot make a man by standing a sheep on its hind legs. But by standing a flock of sheep in that position you can make a crowd of men.
You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play.
Terrorists killed a lot fewer people than bathroom falls and accidental electrocutions.
Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
Depend not on fortune, but on conduct.
Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.
We rocked to a stop still on a downslope.
I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.
Post je objavljen 20.08.2010. u 02:27 sati.