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petak, 25.06.2010.

I love it because the nature wakes up ? trees are in blossom, the green grass grows up, the sun shines, birds sing?beautiful!

All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance.
Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.
Someone's boring me. I think it's me.
Think of yourself as an incandescent power, illuminated and perhaps forever talked to by God and his messengers.
It's important to begin a search on a full stomach.
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
I kept talking. "Listen -- this is some kind of misunderstanding.

A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.

He who is not very strong in memory should not meddle with lying.
Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.
It is only possible to live happily ever after on a day-to-day basis.
One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.
All great truths begin as blasphemies.
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
If God had wanted us to vote, he would have given us candidates.

They were translated into 136 languages.

You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans.
I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
A hypocrite is a person who--but who isn't?
The summer night is like a perfection of thought.
Better by far you should forget and smile than you should remember and be sad.
To try to be better is to be better.
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?

Do it now. It is not safe to leave a generous feeling to the cooling influences of the world.

I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters.
They say such nice things about people at their funerals that it makes me sad to realize that I'm going to miss mine by just a few days.
The best way out is always through.
Art is science made clear.
Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality.
Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.

Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.

So quick and so fiercely I barely had time to gasp before it was locked on me.
Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
My friends are my estate.
If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.
Do not be awe struck by other people and try to copy them. Nobody can be you as efficiently as you can.
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.
Sometimes love will pick you up by the short hairs...and jerk the heck out of you.

My friends are my estate.

All things are difficult before they are easy.
I like to play blackjack. I'm not addicted to gambling, I'm addicted to sitting in a semi-circle.
Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn whatever state I am in, therin to be content
I'm moving, but don't worry! Someone once told me we're all on the same planet, so I'll be okay!
What children take from us, they give?We become people who feel more deeply, question more deeply, hurt more deeply, and love more deeply.
What's the earth With all its art, verse, music, worth - Compared with love, found, gained, and kept?
You cannot be mad at somebody who makes you laugh - it's as simple as that.

? Have you ever felt you should Cut down on your drinking?

Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.
You never know how a horse will pull until you hook him up to a heavy load.
There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.
The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
The strongest possible piece of advice I would give any young woman is: Don't screw around, and don't smoke.
We are what we repeatedly do.
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.

The nomination of the war hero Ulysses S. Grant assured Republican success over the Democrats led by Horatio Seymour in the presidential election of 1868.

Hares can gambol over the body of a dead lion.
It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't.
Get pleasure out of life...as much as you can. Nobody ever died from pleasure.
The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.
What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?
Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.
To try to be better is to be better.

Euclid then proves each one of his theorems using the definitions and postulates, mathematically proving even the most obvious.

He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.
Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.
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.
O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.
When you have got an elephant by the hind leg, and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.
Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play at it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf.

četvrtak, 24.06.2010.

If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.

You must not think me necessarily foolish because I am facetious, nor will I consider you necessarily wise because you are grave.
I went up the stairs cautiously, not able to use my hands.
Vanessa didn't like it, but I figured a cop wasn't going to stop for a kid waving his hat in the street, not that day. They just might stop if they saw Darryl bleeding there, though. I argued briefly with her and Darryl settled it by lurching to his feet and dragging himself down toward Market Street.
All movements go too far.
We are always in search of the redeeming formula, the crystallizing thought.
Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality.
Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.

In Britain the choice of films is limited to young people.

Here's to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes... the ones who see things differently -- they're not fond of rules... You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you can't do is ignore them because they change things... they push the human race forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius, because the ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do.
I believe that every now and then it is important to laugh at ourselves and take a lighter approach to our life conditions.
When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.
When we are unhurried and wise, we perceive that only great and worthy things have any permanent and absolute existence, that petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of the reality.
There are admirable potentialities in every human being. Believe in your strength and your youth. Learn to repeat endlessly to yourself, 'It all depends on me.'
You should not live one way in private, another in public.
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.'

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

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.
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.
What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!
Arguments are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often convincing.
To repeat what others have said, requires education; to challenge it, requires brains.
Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus, but use all gently. For in the very torrent, tempest, and as I may say, whirlwind of passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance that may give it smoothness.
Keep cool and you command everybody.

When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.

The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.
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.
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.
It felt like they used a baton or something -- it was harder than anyone had ever hit me in the head before.
If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play at it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf.
I never know how much of what I say is true.
Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less.

If you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome; if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent; if you believe the military, nothing is safe.

Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.
Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.
It's wonderful what we can do if we're always doing.
There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.
I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!
A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done.
I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.

Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.

The most erroneous stories are those we think we know best - and therefore never scrutinize or question.
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.
Seize opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind.
After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.
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.
You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.

Who were these clowns?

Sorrow was like the wind. It came in gusts.
He had learned over the years that poor people did not feel so poor when allowed to give occasionally.
Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.
What's another word for Thesaurus?
Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself...True happiness is born of self-reliance.
Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.
A tactical retreat is not a bad response to a surprise assault, you know. First you survive. Then you choose your own ground. Then you counterattack.

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

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.
It was enough to make a body ashamed of the human race.
Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
People will buy anything that is one to a customer.
Better shun the bait, than struggle in the snare.
If you're trying to take a roomful of people by surprise, it's a lot easier to hit your targets if you don't yell going through the door.
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.

The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility.

Never rely on the glory of the morning nor the smiles of your mother-in-law.
I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for; perfection is God's business.
I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!
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.
One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.
So quick and so fiercely I barely had time to gasp before it was locked on me.
If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches.

I can eat it anytime and anywhere.

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.
When we are unhurried and wise, we perceive that only great and worthy things have any permanent and absolute existence, that petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of the reality.
Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.
I sent the club a wire stating, PLEASE ACCEPT MY RESIGNATION. I DON'T WANT TO BELONG TO ANY CLUB THAT WILL ACCEPT ME AS A MEMBER.
When we got into office, the thing that surprised me the most was that things were as bad as we'd been saying they were.
By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.
Many people weigh the guilt they will feel against the pleasure of the forbidden action they want to take.

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.

I phoned my dad to tell him I had stopped smoking. He called me a quitter.
History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind.
I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education.
We are what we repeatedly do.
We cannot destroy kindred: Our chains stretch a little sometimes, but they never break.
It is not enough to aim; you must hit.
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.

Homes reflect the way of life and habits of their owners.

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.
As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.
A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a man of wit, and a pebble in the hand of a fool.
A sympathetic Scot summed it all up very neatly in the remark, "You should make a point of trying every experience once, excepting incest and folk dancing."
So little time and so little to do.
Laughter is supposed to be the best medicine, however, it should never be at the expense of someone?s feelings or ignoring truth.

Keep true to the dreams of thy youth.

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.
A hypocrite is a person who--but who isn't?
Maybe they were terrorists!
Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.
Let me tell you, quite frankly, it took a while and a lot of therapy to get here.
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' (I found it!) but 'That's funny ...'
You don't stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop laughing.

Homes reflect the way of life and habits of their owners.

When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.
If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; If you would know, and not be known, live in a city.
He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.
It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.
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.
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.
Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.

The effects of alcohol abuse can be extremely serious--even fatal--both to you and to others.

I have a simple philosophy. Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. And scratch where it itches.
He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.
No.
The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.
Treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.
What children take from us, they give?We become people who feel more deeply, question more deeply, hurt more deeply, and love more deeply.
The art of dining well is no slight art, the pleasure not a slight pleasure.

I often read the paper "Film Week" to know which films have been released and which ones are being shot.

Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
From the moment I picked up your book until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.
It?s like your batteries get low, and you need to charge them on someone else?s story.
I write because I'm afraid to say some things out loud.
Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch.
I didn't even breathe.
True friends are those who really know you but love you anyway.

Whatever you do, do it to the purpose; do it thoroughly, not superficially. Go to the bottom of things. Any thing half done, or half known, is in my mind, neither done nor known at all. Nay, worse, for it often misleads.

You 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.
We learn and grow and are transformed not so much by what we do but by why and how we do it.
I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
You never know how a horse will pull until you hook him up to a heavy load.
I'm going to stay in show business until I'm the last one left.
Self-importance is our greatest enemy. Think about it - what weakens us is feeling offended by the deeds and misdeeds of our fellowmen. Our self-importance requires that we spend most of our lives offended by someone.
I never know how much of what I say is true.

nedjelja, 20.06.2010.

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

I hope that when I die, people say about me, 'Boy, that guy sure owed me a lot of money.'
Life engenders life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.
When we got into office, the thing that surprised me the most was that things were as bad as we'd been saying they were.
I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.
In America, they want you to accomplish these great feats, to pull off these David Copperfield-type stunts. You want me to be great, but you don't ever want me to say I'm great?
I'm moving, but don't worry! Someone once told me we're all on the same planet, so I'll be okay!
What children take from us, they give?We become people who feel more deeply, question more deeply, hurt more deeply, and love more deeply.

Every country and every nation has it's own traditions and customs.

Never does the human soul appear so strong and noble as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury.
Laughter is supposed to be the best medicine, however, it should never be at the expense of someone?s feelings or ignoring truth.
Each body has its art...
We rocked to a stop still on a downslope.
Be a good listener. Your ears will never get you in trouble.
I opened my mouth, then shut it, then, very slowly, I held my hands up in front of me.
The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.

There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.

I'd never looked down the barrel of a gun before, but everything you've heard about the experience is true.
I am not young enough to know everything.
We learn something every day, and lots of times it's that what we learned the day before was wrong.
I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less.
The pain of making the necessary sacrifices always hurts more than you think it's going to. I know. It sucks. That being said, doing something seriously creative is one of the most amazing experiences one can have, in this or any other lifetime. If you can pull it off, it's worth it. Even if you don't end up pulling it off, you'll learn many incredible, magical, valuable things. It's NOT doing it when you know you full well you HAD the opportunity- that hurts FAR more than any failure.
The crux... is that the vast majority of the mass of the universe seems to be missing.

I was in raptures at what I saw on the stage.

More movement, and the sense of bodies being shackled in alongside of me.
Time is that quality of nature which keeps events from happening all at once. Lately it doesn't seem to be working.
You don't have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces - just good food from fresh ingredients.
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
You could get on a boat there, get away. That fit with the terrorism hypothesis.
God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
Sorrow was like the wind. It came in gusts.

Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.

At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.
The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry is like the potato - the best part under ground.
There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
At the mention of the word mace, the guy looked scared and kind of melted back, though the crowd kept him moving forward.
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.
Sometimes you can't see yourself clearly until you see yourself through the eyes of others.
All the world's a cage.

Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.

So quick and so fiercely I barely had time to gasp before it was locked on me.
Most of the basic truths of life sound absurd at first hearing.
Sometimes love will pick you up by the short hairs...and jerk the heck out of you.
Don't mace him!" I shouted over the din. "You'll get us all too.
I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives.
There's so much pollution in the air now that if it weren't for our lungs there'd be no place to put it all.

I usually take books from school library.

Man is only miserable so far as he thinks himself so.
Now we were descending just as steeply.
It is my hope that I can assist you in getting here too.
There are admirable potentialities in every human being. Believe in your strength and your youth. Learn to repeat endlessly to yourself, 'It all depends on me.'
A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done.
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less.

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

I wanted to flag you down because my friend was bleeding. Someone stabbed him."
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.
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.
You could get on a boat there, get away. That fit with the terrorism hypothesis.
People fail forward to success.
Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.
Each body has its art...

They were translated into 136 languages.

The crowd gives the leader new strength.
I phoned my dad to tell him I had stopped smoking. He called me a quitter.
I kept talking. "Listen -- this is some kind of misunderstanding.
If your parents never had children, chances are you won't, either.
If you don't know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else.
There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth.
A moment later, I caught my breath, but I didn't say anything.

petak, 18.06.2010.

Learning to live in the present moment is part of the path of joy.

Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.
Keep true to the dreams of thy youth.
Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always plainly; for the end of speech is not ostentation, but to be understood.
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
Better by far you should forget and smile than you should remember and be sad.
When we are unhurried and wise, we perceive that only great and worthy things have any permanent and absolute existence, that petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of the reality.
Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.

The only time to buy these is on a day with no 'y' in it.

Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality.
For the most part, fear is nothing but an illusion. When you share it with someone else, it tends to disappear.
History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind.
The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving on.
If the only prayer you ever say in your whole life is "thank you," that would suffice.
Terrorists killed a lot fewer people than bathroom falls and accidental electrocutions.
We cannot deny the facts of nature, but we should certainly try to improve on them.

They have many TV and radio programs to choose from.

It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.
Be more prompt to go to a friend in adversity than in prosperity.
There is an applause superior to that of the multitudes: one's own.
The 'Net is a waste of time, and that's exactly what's right about it.
It's a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn't want to hear.
If the only prayer you ever say in your whole life is "thank you," that would suffice.
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.

It is the street there most famous theaters are situated.

You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.
It's very hard to take yourself too seriously when you look at the world from outer space.
There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.
The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.
We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.
The only difference between a rut and a grave... is in their dimensions.

Most of big cities of G.B.,especially London, are decorated with coloured lights and cristmas trees.

Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
No.
Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that's where you renew your springs that never dry up.
Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.
My friends are my estate.
All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.
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.

A sympathetic Scot summed it all up very neatly in the remark, "You should make a point of trying every experience once, excepting incest and folk dancing."

Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone.
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.
In an industrial society which confuses work and productivity, the necessity of producing has always been an enemy of the desire to create.
A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.
The people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego ordinary pleasures themselves and find compensation in interfering with the pleasures of others.
Let not the sands of time get in your lunch.
We are what we repeatedly do.

Before the concept of academic freedom could gain general acceptance, however, it was necessary that education become secularized.

You have to recognize when the right place and the right time fuse and take advantage of that opportunity. There are plenty of opportunities out there. You can't sit back and wait.
The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco.
My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists.
Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.
Play: Work that you enjoy doing for nothing.
You create your opportunities by asking for them.
Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.

It?s beautiful place, with parks, lakes, big open streets and fine buildings.

There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.
Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.
All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.
The mellow sweetness of pumpkin pie off a prison spoon is something you will never forget.
It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.
Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.
Each body has its art...

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

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?
Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
I like weights. You know where you stand with them. Well, sometimes you're lying under them, trying not to let them crush you, but you see, you KNOW they'd crush you if they could. There's honesty.
It?s like your batteries get low, and you need to charge them on someone else?s story.
The Past is to be respected and acknoledged, but not to be worshiped. It is our future in which we will find our greatness.
The great thing about a computer notebook is that no matter how much you stuff into it, it doesn't get bigger or heavier.
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.

utorak, 15.06.2010.

Keep cool and you command everybody.

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
What children take from us, they give?We become people who feel more deeply, question more deeply, hurt more deeply, and love more deeply.
The average person thinks he isn't.
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.
How to Raise your I.Q. by Eating Gifted Children
The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.
To try to be better is to be better.

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

The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.
If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.
God creates men, but they choose each other.
We are able to laugh when we achieve detachment, if only for a moment.
I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.
Electricity is actually made up of extremely tiny particles called electrons, that you cannot see with the naked eye unless you have been drinking.

The Gulf of Aqaba and the Gulf of Suez are the sea's northern arms; between them is the Sinai peninsula.

Our lives teach us who we are.
The Americans have need of the telephone, but we do not. We have plenty of messenger boys.
Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life.
Bacchus hath drowned more men than Neptune.
I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
To achieve great things we must live as though we were never going to die.
I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty... But I am too busy thinking about myself.

Realize that true happiness lies within you. Waste no time and effort searching for peace and contentment and joy in the world outside. Remember that there is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving. Reach out. Share. Smile. Hug. Happines

My wish is to ride the tempest, tame the waves, kill the sharks. I will not resign myself...
If your parents never had children, chances are you won't, either.
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.
In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it.
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
I have lost friends, some by death... others through sheer inability to cross the street.

I never know how much of what I say is true.

The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving on.
Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.
A rumor without a leg to stand on will get around some other way.
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.
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.
One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.
Everybody likes a kidder, but nobody lends him money.

Sooner or later, we've got to work at it, no matter how many other careers we've had or wanted.

When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time.
Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth?Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.
Refuse to be ill. Never tell people you are ill; never own it to yourself. Illness is one of those things which a man should resist on principle.
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.
At the mention of the word mace, the guy looked scared and kind of melted back, though the crowd kept him moving forward.
Play: Work that you enjoy doing for nothing.
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.'

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

After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.
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.
That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.
The car slewed to a stop and only then did I notice that it wasn't a cop car, ambulance or fire-engine.
I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.
All great truths begin as blasphemies.
My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-seven now, and we don't know where the hell she is.

Learn the art of patience. Apply discipline to your thoughts when they become anxious over the outcome of a goal. Impatience breeds anxiety, fear, discouragement and failure. Patience creates confidence, decisiveness, and a rational outlook, which eventua

A smiling face is half the meal.
Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.
Good soldiers never pass up a chance to eat or sleep. They never know how much they'll be called on to do before the next chance.
I hope that when I die, people say about me, 'Boy, that guy sure owed me a lot of money.'
Love truth, and pardon error.
Each body has its art...
Our patience will achieve more than our force.

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

Nothing is said that has not been said before.
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.
The next time a car appeared down Market Street, I stepped right out into the road, waving my arms over my head, shouting.
There are always survivors at a massacre. Among the victors, if nowhere else.
Fall is my favorite season in Los Angeles, watching the birds change color and fall from the trees.
A man is too apt to forget that in this world he cannot have everything. A choice is all that is left him.
Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.

utorak, 08.06.2010.

Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.

Money frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy.
The next time a car appeared down Market Street, I stepped right out into the road, waving my arms over my head, shouting.
A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
You can have it all. You just can't have it all at once.
The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too.
Liberals are very broadminded: they are always willing to give careful consideration to both sides of the same side.
The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.