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subota, 27.11.2010.

Hares can gambol over the body of a dead lion.

Photographers do this for a living, every single day -- they point their lenses toward every single corner of our world and somehow make the mundane mesmerizing through their artistic eye. It's all a matter of being aware of your surroundings and realizing that there are some really amazing and interesting things to look at, even if it may just be something so simple as a wall being covered up by paint.
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.
If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.
The strongest possible piece of advice I would give any young woman is: Don't screw around, and don't smoke.
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.
The more freedom we enjoy, the greater the responsibility we bear, toward others as well as ourselves.
For the most part, fear is nothing but an illusion. When you share it with someone else, it tends to disappear.

These forests are full of wonderful flowers and interesting animals.

I had no idea how much of this was making it through the muffling bag.
There is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income.
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.
No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.
It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.
Make hunger thy sauce, as a medicine for health.
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.

Hoover in 1928 marked the first time since the end of Reconstruction that the party had carried states of the old Confederacy; this came about chiefly because the Democratic candidate, Alfred E. Smith, was a Roman Catholic and an opponent of prohibition.

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.
We learn something every day, and lots of times it's that what we learned the day before was wrong.
My wish is to ride the tempest, tame the waves, kill the sharks. I will not resign myself...
We play the hands of cards life gives us. And the worst hands can make us the best players.
Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others.
Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.

Britain was originally a land of vast forests.

Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality.
Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.
We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.
We need anything politically important rationed out like Pez: small, sweet, and coming out of a funny, plastic head.
I used to think that the brain was the most wonderful organ in my body. Then I realized who was telling me this.
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

It's better to stay neutral until the moment when you can say for sure that you know this or that person pretty well to say he is a person who deserves (or doesn't deserve) faith, understanding or attention. It's my life motto since I've made such a mista

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.
Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
To achieve great things we must live as though we were never going to die.
Having a holiday weekend without a family member felt like putting on a sweater that had an extra arm.
Sorrow was like the wind. It came in gusts.
We rarely think people have good sense unless they agree with us.

Keep your broken arm inside your sleeve.

Do it now. It is not safe to leave a generous feeling to the cooling influences of the world.
From the moment I picked up your book until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.
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?
There is surely a piece of divinity in us, something that was before the elements, and owes no homage unto the sun.
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.
All programmers are playwrights and all computers are lousy actors.
I am not sincere, even when I say I am not.

I love every corner and every thing in my flat.

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.
I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it.
America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.
We were in the open concourse where the turnstiles were. It was hardly any better here -- the enclosed space sent the voices around us echoing back in a roar that made my head ring, and the smell and feeling of all those bodies made me feel a claustrophobia I'd never known I was prone to.
Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.

Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it.

Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.
It is impossible to walk rapidly and be unhappy.
Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.
I heard Jolu respond, then felt the thump he was dealt, too.
Hope is tomorrow's veneer over today's disappointment.
We need anything politically important rationed out like Pez: small, sweet, and coming out of a funny, plastic head.
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.

The trees begin to blossom. Sometimes it drizzles, but there are no rough winds; the sun shines brightly.

What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.
There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.
If it weren't for baseball, many kids wouldn't know what a millionaire looked like.
It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.
Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day.
If you want to be respected, you must respect yourself.
The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star.

My father hated radio and could not wait for television to be invented so he could hate that too.

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.
People fail forward to success.
Now is the time for all good men to come to.
So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.
Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
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.
Life engenders life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.

Effects of Employee Drinking

By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd be grown up.
There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.
Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
History is more or less bunk.
Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn't block traffic.
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.

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.

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.
By learning to discover and value our ordinariness, we nurture a friendliness toward ourselves and the world that is the essence of a healthy soul.
You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.
All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance.
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.
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.
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.

That you may retain your self-respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right, than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong.

I felt the doors open near me, and then saw a confusion of booted feet moving close by.
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.
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.
We learn and grow and are transformed not so much by what we do but by why and how we do it.
Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.
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.

Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack.

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.
No matter what I do, no matter how predictable I try to make my life, it will not be any more predictable than the rest of the world. Which is chaotic.
Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.
It's a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn't want to hear.
If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody.

But these places are also holy to the Aboriginals.

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.
Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.
People fail forward to success.
The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.
Having a holiday weekend without a family member felt like putting on a sweater that had an extra arm.
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.
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.

Little was ever written about Euclid, and the available information is scarce and of questionable accuracy.

Walking is man's best medicine.
Hope is tomorrow's veneer over today's disappointment.
There are a terrible lot of lies going around the world, and the worst of it is half of them are true.
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present.
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.
Keep cool and you command everybody.

četvrtak, 25.11.2010.

Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.

There is no nonsense so errant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action.
All the world's a cage.
More movement, and the sense of bodies being shackled in alongside of me.
Best wide-angle lens? Two steps backward. Look for the 'ah-ha'.
Never make a defense or an apology until you are accused.
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.
Do it now. It is not safe to leave a generous feeling to the cooling influences of the world.

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

Optimism and hope are our best friends. Let?s reach out and Laugh together at our confounding traits and still, let?s keep in mind that our sympt oms and traits are very real with consequences, never to be underestimated or discounted.
You cannot be mad at somebody who makes you laugh - it's as simple as that.
The art of dining well is no slight art, the pleasure not a slight pleasure.
Peace is when time doesn't matter as it passes by.
I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!
The roses, the lovely notes, the dining and dancing are all welcome and splendid. But when the Godiva is gone, the gift of real love is having someone who'll go the distance with you. Someone who, when the wedding day limo breaks down, is willing to share a seat on the bus.
To be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.

Many developing countries, such as India, Egypt, Nigeria, Lybia, etc have excellent hotels.

He who laughs, lasts!
Vegetarianism is harmless enough, though it is apt to fill a man with wind and self-righteousness.
There are a terrible lot of lies going around the world, and the worst of it is half of them are true.
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
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.
There is an applause superior to that of the multitudes: one's own.
So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.

I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.

The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.
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.
Hearing voices no one else can hear isn't a good sign, even in the wizarding world.
Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.
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.

The book is a faithful and undemanding friend.

Never rely on the glory of the morning nor the smiles of your mother-in-law.
But be, as you have been, my happiness...
Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to be caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self.
Never be a cynic, even a gentle one. Never help out a sneer, even at the devil.
You can go a long way with bad legs and a good head.
Statistics: The only science that enables different experts using the same figures to draw different conclusions.
The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too.

But I preferred to read books about travels.

A hobby a day keeps the doldrums away.
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.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.
Good taste is the enemy of comedy.
Temptation rarely comes in working hours. It is in their leisure time that men are made or marred.
He who boasts of his ancestry is praising the deeds of another.

His administration rivaled Grant's for corruption, but after Harding died in office, his successor, Calvin Coolidge , was returned over John W. Davis and La Follette.

A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory.
You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play.
There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.
We were in the open concourse where the turnstiles were. It was hardly any better here -- the enclosed space sent the voices around us echoing back in a roar that made my head ring, and the smell and feeling of all those bodies made me feel a claustrophobia I'd never known I was prone to.
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.
Anything looked at closely becomes wonderful.

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?

Up ahead, I saw someone, a middle-aged lady in a hippie dress, falter and fall.
Worries go down better with soup than without.
Everybody likes to go their own way--to choose their own time and manner of devotion.
When I was a kid my parents moved a lot, but I always found them.
The 'Net is a waste of time, and that's exactly what's right about it.
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.
We can be sure that the greatest hope for maintaining equilibrium in the face of any situation rests within ourselves.

utorak, 09.11.2010.

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.

The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.
Never does the human soul appear so strong and noble as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury.
To try to be better is to be better.
A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.
I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.

If present trends continue for the next several decades, our planet will become uninhabitable.

The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.
Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
Hares can gambol over the body of a dead lion.
Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less.
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.
Never eat more than you can lift.

Rest is the sweet sauce of labor.

It is better to wear out than to rust out.
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.
Van was screaming something and Jolu was shouting and I looked at them for a second and that was when someone put a coarse.
Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.
We cannot destroy kindred: Our chains stretch a little sometimes, but they never break.
There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers.
Shake off all the fears of servile prejudices, under which weak minds are servilely crouched. Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call on her tribunal for every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear.

If you refuse to be made straight when you are green, you will not be made straight when you are dry.

Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.
I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
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.
The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all men, charity.
I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters.
I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!
A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory.

I was the kid next door's imaginary friend.

Good taste is the enemy of comedy.
You can't deny laughter. When it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.
I felt the doors open near me, and then saw a confusion of booted feet moving close by.
Whatever you fear most has no power - it is your fear that has the power.
The best way out is always through.
I was gratified to be able to answer promptly. I said I don't know.
The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.

All programmers are playwrights and all computers are lousy actors.

Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less.
I've never quite believed that one chance is all I get.
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.
We are what we repeatedly do.
As I neared her, I bent to help her up, and was nearly knocked over her.
The Past is to be respected and acknoledged, but not to be worshiped. It is our future in which we will find our greatness.
Temptation rarely comes in working hours. It is in their leisure time that men are made or marred.

You should be involved in making referral decisions and have all treatment choices explained to you.

Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.
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.
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.
Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less.
Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.
Art is either plagiarism or revolution.
I don't like composers who think. It gets in the way of their plagiarism.

The lion and the calf shall lie down together but the calf won't get much sleep.

She got her looks from her father. He's a plastic surgeon.
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.
A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top .
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.
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
Order is not pressure which is imposed on society from without, but an equilibrium which is set up from within.
Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.

Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.
An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.
A minute's success pays the failure of years.
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'.
The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
It was a military-looking Jeep, like an armored Hummer, only it didn't have any military insignia on it.
I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.

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