An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.
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.
Many people weigh the guilt they will feel against the pleasure of the forbidden action they want to take.
I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.
The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
Ask a deeply religious Christian if he?d rather live next to a bearded Muslim that may or may not be plotting a terror attack, or an atheist that may or may not show him how to set up a wireless network in his house. On the scale of prejudice, atheists don?t seem so bad lately.
To be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it.
Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.
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.
Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.
The strongest possible piece of advice I would give any young woman is: Don't screw around, and don't smoke.
If my mental map was right, we were heading down to Fisherman's Wharf.
For the most part, fear is nothing but an illusion. When you share it with someone else, it tends to disappear.
Play: Work that you enjoy doing for nothing.
Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.
Depend not on fortune, but on conduct.
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.
The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt.
Nobody is ever met at the airport when beginning a new adventure. It's just not done.
Never rely on the glory of the morning nor the smiles of your mother-in-law.
Post je objavljen 20.08.2010. u 04:28 sati.