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utorak, 26.10.2010.

But one of the consperators had several friends in the parliament and he didn't want them to die.

When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.
The engine died and then the doors swung open.
Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
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.
Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
Above all things, never be afraid. The enemy who forces you to retreat is himself afraid of you at that very moment.
For visions come not to polluted eyes.

Is leisure time of great importance to you? Is the size of your salary important?

All great truths begin as blasphemies.
It is wonderful how quickly you get used to things, even the most astonishing.
You always pass failure on the way to success.
Without the capacity to provide its own information, the mind drifts into randomness.
Never part without loving words to think of during your absence. It may be that you will not meet again in life.
Experience is a good teacher, but she send in terrific bills.
It is not enough to aim; you must hit.

The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.

There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
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.
O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.
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.
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?
In the absences of a decent time machine, fiction remains the most sturdy vehicle for visiting other eras.
The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.
It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.
Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.
Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality... the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.
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 real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
We learn and grow and are transformed not so much by what we do but by why and how we do it.

And the last type of dwelling I want to mention is a detached house.

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.
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.
Up ahead, I saw someone, a middle-aged lady in a hippie dress, falter and fall.
If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read "President Can't Swim".
I like an escalator because an escalator can never break, it can only become stairs. There would never be an escalator temporaly out of order sign, only an escalator temporarily stairs. Sorry for the convenience.
The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.

For example, in Britain the weather is often rainy, summer there is quite warm, but windy.

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.
Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
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.
It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.
The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.
A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of.
Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives.

79 shot stories, 4 non-fiction ones and 19 plays were written by that strange woman.

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.
Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers.
He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.
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.
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.
Obscurity is a good thing. You can fail in obscurity. It removes the fear of failure.
Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.

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

Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
So quick and so fiercely I barely had time to gasp before it was locked on me.
You can go a long way with bad legs and a good head.
Early morning cheerfulness can be extremely obnoxious.
What makes the engine go? Desire, desire, desire.
The most important thing she'd learned over the years was that there was no way to be a perfect mother and a million ways to be a good one.
The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself.

Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play.
Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others.
In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from.
We do not believe if we do not live and work according to our belief.
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.
Is there life before death?
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.

If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; If you would know, and not be known, live in a city.

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.
The mellow sweetness of pumpkin pie off a prison spoon is something you will never forget.
Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment.
Without the capacity to provide its own information, the mind drifts into randomness.
Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain.
Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.

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.

Do not be awe struck by other people and try to copy them. Nobody can be you as efficiently as you can.
It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.
We all have strength enough to endure the misfortunes of others.
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.
If my mental map was right, we were heading down to Fisherman's Wharf.
When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.
I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.

Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.

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.
I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.
If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
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.
Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.
I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education.
The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said.

Feet, why do I need them if I have wings to fly?

I like an escalator because an escalator can never break, it can only become stairs. There would never be an escalator temporaly out of order sign, only an escalator temporarily stairs. Sorry for the convenience.
I don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is a language I don't understand.
Intimacy is being seen and known as the person you truly are.
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.
Seize opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind.
We bear the world and we make it... There was never a great man who had not a great mother - it is hardly an exaggeration.
Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.

We need anything politically important rationed out like Pez: small, sweet, and coming out of a funny, plastic head.

It is not enough to aim; you must hit.
All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star.
Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself...True happiness is born of self-reliance.
Creative work is play. It is free speculation using materials of one's chosen form.
The two symbols of the Republican Party: an elephant, and a big fat white guy who is threatened by change.

Historically, academic freedom developed during the Enlightenment.

I was gratified to be able to answer promptly. I said I don't know.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
We cannot deny the facts of nature, but we should certainly try to improve on them.
The two symbols of the Republican Party: an elephant, and a big fat white guy who is threatened by change.
A smiling face is half the meal.
All the world's a cage.
If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.

The party lost control of the Senate as a result of a defection in mid-2001, but regained it after the Nov., 2002, elections. In 2004, Bush was renominated without opposition, and he subsequently soundly defeated the Democratic nominee, John Kerry .

Newspapermen learn to call a murderer 'an alleged murderer' and the King of England 'the alleged King of England' to avoid libel suits.
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.
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?
If you refuse to be made straight when you are green, you will not be made straight when you are dry.
The charity that hastens to proclaim its good deeds, ceases to be charity, and is only pride and ostentation.
Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far.
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.

Any of these treatments may be provided in a hospital or residential treatment setting or on an outpatient basis.

All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance.
A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money.
The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all of your time.
Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.
Is there life before death?
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!

I have always felt that a politician is to be judged by the animosities he excites among his opponents.

I am not sincere, even when I say I am not.
History is more or less bunk.
Good breeding consists of concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.
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 eventually leads to success.
There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.
Do not be awe struck by other people and try to copy them. Nobody can be you as efficiently as you can.
If the only prayer you ever say in your whole life is "thank you," that would suffice.

subota, 23.10.2010.

I despise the pleasure of pleasing people that I despise.

It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity.
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
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.
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.
Depend not on fortune, but on conduct.
Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.

But days become shorter and nights longer and darker.

The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.
It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
In the absences of a decent time machine, fiction remains the most sturdy vehicle for visiting other eras.
Most of the basic truths of life sound absurd at first hearing.
My mother loved children -- she would have given anything if I had been one.
The faceless, eyeless armed man above me kept his gun very level.

He was taught at The Academy in Athens, founded by Plato, and probably tutored another great mathematician, Archimedes.

The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.
It's a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn't want to hear.
If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.
Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.
You never know how a horse will pull until you hook him up to a heavy load.
There is no stigma attached to recognizing a bad decision in time to install a better one.
Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.

Lord Monteagle took the letter hurrily to the King. Guards were sent at once to examine the cellars of the house of Parliament.

Feet, why do I need them if I have wings to fly?
America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.
It is easier to exclude harmful passions than to rule them, and to deny them admittance than to control them after they have been admitted.
If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.
Life engenders life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.
The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that's where you renew your springs that never dry up.

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

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.
Your world is made of your memories, and your memories are given to you by your world. The whispering voice of happenstance is always in our ears. 'This is the world. This is the way things are. Look. Pay attention. Remember.'
If my mental map was right, we were heading down to Fisherman's Wharf.
Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable.
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.
Some people make headlines while others make history.
Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn't block traffic.

A poem is no place for an idea.

All great truths begin as blasphemies.
Even the best of friends need time apart.
He attacked everything in life with a mix of extrordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which was which.
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?
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.
I wanted to flag you down because my friend was bleeding. Someone stabbed him."
I don't own a cell phone or a pager. I just hang around everyone I know, all the time. If someone wants to get a hold of me, they just say 'Mitch,' and I say 'what?' and turn my head slightly.

Virtually all alcoholism treatment programs also include meetings of Alcoholics Anonymous (AA), which describes itself as a "worldwide fellowship of men and women who help each other to stay sober."

Be sincere; be brief; be seated.
Anger at lies lasts forever. Anger at truth can't last.
Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity.
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.
Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.
When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.
By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd be grown up.

A number of catholics chief of whom was Robert Catesby determined to kill the King and his ministers by blowing up the house of Parliament with gunpowder.

The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.
Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
I felt the doors open near me, and then saw a confusion of booted feet moving close by.
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.
Your parents, they give you your life, but then they try to give you their life.
The older I grow, the less important the comma becomes. Let the reader catch his own breath.
Facts are the enemy of truth.

I'm sure that I'm a happy person: I have many friends, loving parents, goals in my life, etc.

A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down.
We all have strength enough to endure the misfortunes of others.
Write a wise saying and your name will live forever.
The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt.
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.
One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.
You must not think me necessarily foolish because I am facetious, nor will I consider you necessarily wise because you are grave.

srijeda, 20.10.2010.

His work was translated into Latin and Arabic, and was first printed in mass quantity in 1482, ten years before Columbus, but 1800 years AFTER it was written! From that point until the early 1900's, The Elements was considered by far the best geometry tex

The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.
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.
Vigorous writing is concise.
We are able to laugh when we achieve detachment, if only for a moment.
Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.
For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

Although it contains 13 volumes, much of the work may not be Euclid's.

I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
Hearing voices no one else can hear isn't a good sign, even in the wizarding world.
Feet, why do I need them if I have wings to fly?
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.
Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.

The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry is like the potato - the best part under ground.

Everybody likes a kidder, but nobody lends him money.
The scornful nostril and the high head gather not the odors that lie on the track of truth.
No one goes there nowadays, it's too crowded.
The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.
We don't get offered crises, they arrive.
If your parents never had children, chances are you won't, either.
Students achieving Oneness will move on to Twoness.

It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.

Without the capacity to provide its own information, the mind drifts into randomness.
In an industrial society which confuses work and productivity, the necessity of producing has always been an enemy of the desire to create.
Our patience will achieve more than our force.
It's so much easier to write a resume than to craft a spirit.
Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.
Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.

He or she can help you determine whether you have a drinking problem and, if so, recommend the best course of action for you.

Deeds, not words shall speak me.
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.
The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.
The better part of valor is discretion, in the which better part I have saved my life.
When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers.
The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself.
It is impossible to walk rapidly and be unhappy.

Preventing Alcohol Problems in the Workplace

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.
A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
Keep cool and you command everybody.
O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.
So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.

I have very strong feelings about how you lead your life. You always look ahead, you never look back.

Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
If the only prayer you ever say in your whole life is "thank you," that would suffice.
Feet, why do I need them if I have wings to fly?
When you go into court you are putting your fate into the hands of twelve people who weren't smart enough to get out of jury duty.
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 in total darkness now and I strained my ears to hear what was going on with my friends.
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.

That means that it is never too hot or too cold. Winters are extremely mild.

It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right - especially when one is right.
It's so much easier to write a resume than to craft a spirit.
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.
Paradise is exactly like where you are right now... only much, much better.
Van was screaming something and Jolu was shouting and I looked at them for a second and that was when someone put a coarse.
I felt the doors open near me, and then saw a confusion of booted feet moving close by.
Funny business, a woman's career: the things you drop on the way up the ladder so you can move faster. You forget you'll need them again when you get back to being a woman. It's one career all females have in common, whether we like it or not: being a woman.

Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.

I barely had time to register them before those rifles were pointed at me.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
Early morning cheerfulness can be extremely obnoxious.
Someone dragged me by my arms out onto the road, then shoved me, stumbling, down a paved road.
There is an applause superior to that of the multitudes: one's own.
We can be sure that the greatest hope for maintaining equilibrium in the face of any situation rests within ourselves.
Rest is the sweet sauce of labor.

In particular, you can answer to important questions.

Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.
If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.
Peace is when time doesn't matter as it passes by.
You have no control over what the other guy does. You only have control over what you do.
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.
I have lost friends, some by death... others through sheer inability to cross the street.
I was sick of cars driving right past me.

Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that of another.

How to Raise your I.Q. by Eating Gifted Children
There were millions of ways that the world could kill me.
The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.
Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.
Statistics: The only science that enables different experts using the same figures to draw different conclusions.
In an industrial society which confuses work and productivity, the necessity of producing has always been an enemy of the desire to create.
There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?

A book is one of the greatest wonders of the world.

Nothing can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.
If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.
The car rocked back and forth and tipped uphill.
I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate.
The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
There are plenty of good five-cent cigars in the country. The trouble is they cost a quarter. What this country needs is a good five-cent nickel.
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.

When I was a kid my parents moved a lot, but I always found them.

A joke's a very serious thing.
Now is the time for all good men to come to.
Intimacy is what makes a marriage, not a ceremony, not a piece of paper from the state.
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.
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.
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' (I found it!) but 'That's funny ...'
So little time and so little to do.

When the sun shines, the air of the Blue Mountains is a real, beautiful blue.

Do not be awe struck by other people and try to copy them. Nobody can be you as efficiently as you can.
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.
The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it.
Liberals are very broadminded: they are always willing to give careful consideration to both sides of the same side.
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 eventually leads to success.
The faceless, eyeless armed man above me kept his gun very level.
I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.

Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.

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'.
Our lives teach us who we are.
We learn something every day, and lots of times it's that what we learned the day before was wrong.
If my mental map was right, we were heading down to Fisherman's Wharf.
Even the fear of death is nothing compared to the fear of not having lived authentically and fully.
The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.
Vigorous writing is concise.

He was taught at The Academy in Athens, founded by Plato, and probably tutored another great mathematician, Archimedes.

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.
Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the game, and dumb enough to think it's important.
The Past is to be respected and acknoledged, but not to be worshiped. It is our future in which we will find our greatness.
Order is not pressure which is imposed on society from without, but an equilibrium which is set up from within.
There is an evil tendency underlying all our technology - the tendency to do what is reasonable even when it isn't any good.
A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money.
The car slewed to a stop and only then did I notice that it wasn't a cop car, ambulance or fire-engine.

Inspiration does exist, but it must find you working.

The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.
I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education.
I kept talking. "Listen -- this is some kind of misunderstanding.
Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.
Fig Newton: The force required to accelerate a fig 39.37 inches per sec.

The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.

Joy is prayer - Joy is strength - Joy is love - Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star.
Art is either plagiarism or revolution.
It is not enough to aim; you must hit.
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.
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.

Also he gave me some sulfa pills, a slip for X-Ray and blood examination.

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.
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.
When they discover the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to discover they are not it.
But be, as you have been, my happiness...
I guess we'd be living in a boring, perfect world if everybody wished everybody else well.
No one goes there nowadays, it's too crowded.

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.

Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.
As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
Censorship, like charity, should begin at home; but, unlike charity, it should end there.
Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.
Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
My eyes swam and watered and I literally couldn't breathe through the pain.
Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.

If I have got time I like to spend it with my favourite book.

People fail forward to success.
Make a decision, even if it's wrong.
Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.
The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt.
He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.
The first vehicle that screamed past -- an ambulance -- didn't even slow down.
It's a dangerous business going out your front door.

There are more than a dozen very good orchestras in Britain and some of them are world famous.

Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid.
For the night was not impartial. No, the night loved some more than others, served some more than others.
There are no wise few. Every aristocracy that has ever existed has behaved, in all essential points, exactly like a small mob.
Make a decision, even if it's wrong.
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.'
Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.
You must not think me necessarily foolish because I am facetious, nor will I consider you necessarily wise because you are grave.

If you feel that you lack information, knowledge, and words to express your opinions - read more!

The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.
Sitting in the back of that Hummer, my head in a hood, my hands lashed behind my back, lurching back and forth while the bruises swelled up on my head, terrorism suddenly felt a lot riskier.
It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.
There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.
I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
No.

The heart of the New York is Manhattan.

When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time.
Someone's boring me. I think it's me.
Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Health consists of having the same diseases as one's neighbors.
Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.
We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.

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.

There are plenty of good five-cent cigars in the country. The trouble is they cost a quarter. What this country needs is a good five-cent nickel.
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.
We should every night call ourselves to an account; What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed? What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired? Our vices will abort of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.
I don't think about risks much. I just do what I want to do. If you gotta go, you gotta go.
Equal opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent.
Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
Sometimes you can't see yourself clearly until you see yourself through the eyes of others.

There were millions of ways that the world could kill me.

I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!
Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable.
An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought.
The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from Science, along with behaviour control, genetic engineering, transplanted heads, computer poetry and the unrestrained growth of plastic flowers.
I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.
It is not enough to aim; you must hit.
People will buy anything that is one to a customer.

There are no deserts in Tasmania.

Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity.
It's very hard to take yourself too seriously when you look at the world from outer space.
I have never been especially impressed by the heroics of people who are convinced they are about to change the world. I am more awed by those who struggle to make one small difference after another.
We cannot deny the facts of nature, but we should certainly try to improve on them.
Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it.
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.
Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality.

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

The crux... is that the vast majority of the mass of the universe seems to be missing.
He had learned over the years that poor people did not feel so poor when allowed to give occasionally.
We rarely think people have good sense unless they agree with us.
Having a holiday weekend without a family member felt like putting on a sweater that had an extra arm.
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.
A man is too apt to forget that in this world he cannot have everything. A choice is all that is left him.
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.

However, in practice, there are no real mechanisms of women?s rights fulfillment as well as for their active participation in social life.

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.
Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives.
I'd never really believed in terrorists before.
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.
Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.
Before you do anything, think. If you do something to try and impress someone, to be loved, accepted or even to get someone's attention, stop and think. So many people are busy trying to create an image, they die in the process.
You cannot run away from a weakness; you must sometimes fight it out or perish. And if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?

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.

At the mention of the word mace, the guy looked scared and kind of melted back, though the crowd kept him moving forward.
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.
It is wonderful how quickly you get used to things, even the most astonishing.
You should not live one way in private, another in public.
Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.
Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
Maybe they were terrorists!

A 15-session worksite coping-skills intervention designed to reduce work- and family-related risk, to enhance protective factors, and to reduce negative health outcomes was conducted among 136 female secretaries.

Nothing is so good for an ignorant man as silence; and if he was sensible of this he would not be ignorant.
Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.
Joy is prayer - Joy is strength - Joy is love - Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.
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.
We've got to get my friend to a hospital --"

After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.

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.
A joke's a very serious thing.
A chess genius is a human being who focuses vast, little-understood mental gifts and labors on an ultimately trivial human enterprise.
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.
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.
It is easier to exclude harmful passions than to rule them, and to deny them admittance than to control them after they have been admitted.
Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.

I try to enjoy every day of my life and be happy all the time: to smile when I wake up because of the bright sun shining directly into my window, to feel happiness somewhere deep inside playing snowballs or swimming in the sea, to feel pleasure when I see

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.
We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe.
Fig Newton: The force required to accelerate a fig 39.37 inches per sec.
My eyes swam and watered and I literally couldn't breathe through the pain.
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.
Inspiration does exist, but it must find you working.
From the moment I picked up your book until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.

To proponents of population regulation, it is unethical for us not to encourage a sharp drop in birth rates and unsustainable forms of resource use to prevent a sharp rise in death rates and human misery and a decrease in Earth's biodiversity in the futu

The most beautiful adventures are not those we go to seek.
The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable.
No one goes there nowadays, it's too crowded.
The only difference between a rut and a grave... is in their dimensions.
A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.

nedjelja, 17.10.2010.

He said that is was a light case of the flu and told me to stay in bed and to have a rest.

Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
Students achieving Oneness will move on to Twoness.
Speak when you are angry--and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret.
We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.
If my mental map was right, we were heading down to Fisherman's Wharf.

He had luxurious moustaches and he was really proud of them.

The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
Nothing is so awesomely unfamiliar as the familiar that discloses itself at the end of a journey.
No.
An idea is salvation by imagination.
Don't mace him!" I shouted over the din. "You'll get us all too.
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.

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.

You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
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.
Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.
Sometimes love will pick you up by the short hairs...and jerk the heck out of you.
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
Doubt 'til thou canst doubt no more...doubt is thought and thought is life. Systems which end doubt are devices for drugging thought.
My eyes swam and watered and I literally couldn't breathe through the pain.

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.

We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.
Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.
Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack.
The engine died and then the doors swung open.
Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others.
Well done is better than well said.
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.

Nothing is so awesomely unfamiliar as the familiar that discloses itself at the end of a journey.

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.
We are always in search of the redeeming formula, the crystallizing thought.
Nothing in the world can take the place of Persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan 'Press On' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.
I say luck is when an opportunity comes along, and you're prepared for it.
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!
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.
Dance is the hidden language of the soul.

There are also those who like semi-detached houses or, as the Americans call them, duplexes.

Money doesn't always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are no happier than people with nine million dollars.
You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are; but you must approach each man by the right door.
By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd be grown up.
Be more prompt to go to a friend in adversity than in prosperity.
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.
O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.
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.

In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.

The car rocked back and forth and tipped uphill.
Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.
I have always felt that a politician is to be judged by the animosities he excites among his opponents.
Peace is when time doesn't matter as it passes by.
Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.
The next time a car appeared down Market Street, I stepped right out into the road, waving my arms over my head, shouting.
We need anything politically important rationed out like Pez: small, sweet, and coming out of a funny, plastic head.

There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.

A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.
There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.
The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?
Some people make headlines while others make history.
The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.

četvrtak, 14.10.2010.

Because of differing concepts of carrying capacity, however, experts differ widely over what level of population is considered too high.

I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
If God had wanted us to vote, he would have given us candidates.
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.
Your parents, they give you your life, but then they try to give you their life.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far.
Nothing is impossible. Some things are just less likely than others.

The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.

What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.
I feel very strongly that change is good because it stirs up the system.
The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.
Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.
Go often to the house of thy friend; for weeds soon choke up the unused path.
Now we were descending just as steeply.
Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke.

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.

An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.
Seize opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind.
You cannot run away from a weakness; you must sometimes fight it out or perish. And if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?
Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.
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.
I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
I stumbled some, then a hand pushed my head down and I was inside the Hummer.

Although he may not have written The Elements entirely on his own, his other works are certainly his alone.

I feel very strongly that change is good because it stirs up the system.
Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousand of miles and all the years you have lived.
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality.
A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnecessary.
Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.
Let me tell you, quite frankly, it took a while and a lot of therapy to get here.

Women's salaries are on average lower than men's, and women are likewise far more likely to fall victim to violence and unemployment.

Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that's where you renew your springs that never dry up.
Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.
One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.
Facts are the enemy of truth.
If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.
Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousand of miles and all the years you have lived.
After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.

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

Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.
I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!
A man can do all things if he but wills them.
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.
Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.
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.
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.

srijeda, 13.10.2010.

I applauded so much, that my hands ached.

Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.
I despise the pleasure of pleasing people that I despise.
A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down.
We don't get offered crises, they arrive.
A minute's success pays the failure of years.
My father hated radio and could not wait for television to be invented so he could hate that too.
Van's sweater was soaked in blood.

We don't get offered crises, they arrive.

More bodies were roughly shoved in beside me.
I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for; perfection is God's business.
All human situations have their inconveniences. We feel those of the present but neither see nor feel those of the future; and hence we often make troublesome changes without amendment, and frequently for the worse.
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.
To try to be better is to be better.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
Learning to live in the present moment is part of the path of joy.

Everybody enjoys the cloudless sky and bright sun.

Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up.
We need anything politically important rationed out like Pez: small, sweet, and coming out of a funny, plastic head.
Sack over my head and cinched it tight around my windpipe.
A moment later, I caught my breath, but I didn't say anything.
What children take from us, they give?We become people who feel more deeply, question more deeply, hurt more deeply, and love more deeply.
I'd never looked down the barrel of a gun before, but everything you've heard about the experience is true.
Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.

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

The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
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.
Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousand of miles and all the years you have lived.
He had learned over the years that poor people did not feel so poor when allowed to give occasionally.
I'd learned my lesson.
Money doesn't always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are no happier than people with nine million dollars.
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.

Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others.

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.
Summer afternoon - Summer afternoon... the two most beautiful words in the English language.
You can have it all. You just can't have it all at once.
Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid.
Life engenders life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.
Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy.
I'm struck by the insidious, computer-driven tendency to take things out of the domain of muscular activity and put them into the domain of mental activity. The transfer is not paying off. Sure, muscles are unreliable, but they represent several million years of accumulated finesse.

The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from Science, along with behaviour control, genetic engineering, transplanted heads, computer poetry and the unrestrained growth of plastic flowers.

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.
Sack over my head and cinched it tight around my windpipe.
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?
Facts are the enemy of truth.
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.
Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the game, and dumb enough to think it's important.
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.

I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.

We may not imagine how our lives could be more frustrating and complex--but Congress can.
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
The most important thing she'd learned over the years was that there was no way to be a perfect mother and a million ways to be a good one.
By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd be grown up.
The lesson which life repeats and constantly enforces is 'look under foot.' You are always nearer the divine and the true sources of your power than you think.
A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a man of wit, and a pebble in the hand of a fool.
Art is science made clear.

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

He had learned over the years that poor people did not feel so poor when allowed to give occasionally.
Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.
Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.
Most of the basic truths of life sound absurd at first hearing.
The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too.
If your parents never had children, chances are you won't, either.
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.

Euclid of Alexandria is one of the most important and influential mathematicians in history.

Look at all the sentences which seem true and question them.
I feel very strongly that change is good because it stirs up the system.
God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
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 feel like a tiny bird with a big song!
The engine died and then the doors swung open.
Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.

I don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is a language I don't understand.

It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
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.
Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.
If men could only know each other, they would neither idolize nor hate.
Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge.
My friend is one... who take me for what I am.

After summer autumn comes.

Somebody has to do something, and it's just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.
Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.
Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.
A hobby a day keeps the doldrums away.
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.
Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.

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.

I was in total darkness now and I strained my ears to hear what was going on with my friends.
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.
A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnecessary.
It is my hope that I can assist you in getting here too.
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.
Whatever you fear most has no power - it is your fear that has the power.
We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language.

Temptation rarely comes in working hours. It is in their leisure time that men are made or marred.

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.'
I like an escalator because an escalator can never break, it can only become stairs. There would never be an escalator temporaly out of order sign, only an escalator temporarily stairs. Sorry for the convenience.
A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them.
You don't stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop laughing.
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.
After the last of 16 mounting screws has been removed from an access cover, it will be discovered that the wrong access cover has been removed.
Vegetarianism is harmless enough, though it is apt to fill a man with wind and self-righteousness.

Dance is the hidden language of the soul.

In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the next meal would come from.
Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack.
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.
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to be caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self.
There is an applause superior to that of the multitudes: one's own.

So, never judge people by appearances, because appearances are deceptive!

I believe that every now and then it is important to laugh at ourselves and take a lighter approach to our life conditions.
Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.
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.
It's never just a game when you're winning.
I'd never looked down the barrel of a gun before, but everything you've heard about the experience is true.
We should every night call ourselves to an account; What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed? What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired? Our vices will abort of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.
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.

You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are; but you must approach each man by the right door.

Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.
Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.
I didn't even breathe.
I used to think that the brain was the most wonderful organ in my body. Then I realized who was telling me this.
Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.
You never know how a horse will pull until you hook him up to a heavy load.
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.

They weren't wearing insignia.

Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke.
When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time.
He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.
But be, as you have been, my happiness...
Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.
Facts are the enemy of truth.
Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.

Assuming either the Left Wing or the Right Wing gained control of the country, it would probably fly around in circles.

Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment.
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.
It?s like your batteries get low, and you need to charge them on someone else?s story.
By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd be grown up.
By prizing heartfulness above faultlessness, we may reap more from our effort because we're more likely to be changed by it.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.
I stand in awe of my body.

utorak, 12.10.2010.

As for me, I am a great cinema-goer.

The older I grow, the less important the comma becomes. Let the reader catch his own breath.
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.
When all is said and done, the weather and love are the two elements about which one can never be sure.
It's important to begin a search on a full stomach.
It is easier to exclude harmful passions than to rule them, and to deny them admittance than to control them after they have been admitted.
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.

It?s not surprising that more holiday-makers come to Queensland every year.

Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today.
There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.
By prizing heartfulness above faultlessness, we may reap more from our effort because we're more likely to be changed by it.
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
Nothing is so awesomely unfamiliar as the familiar that discloses itself at the end of a journey.
All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.
I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.

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

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.
Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.
Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.
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 world tolerates conceit from those who are successful, but not from anybody else.
A doctor saves lives -- It's up to people to create lives that are worth saving.
Maybe they were terrorists!

I like to read books about animals, nature and children.

Feet, why do I need them if I have wings to fly?
The most erroneous stories are those we think we know best - and therefore never scrutinize or question.
I never know how much of what I say is true.
Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.
In the right light, at the right time, everything is extraordinary.
I got up the third step and reached for the fourth, but it wasn't there.
My home is not a place, it is people.

First, there?s real kind ? the kind that comes out of the ground.

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.
The strongest possible piece of advice I would give any young woman is: Don't screw around, and don't smoke.
I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.
You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.
All great truths begin as blasphemies.
When all is said and done, the weather and love are the two elements about which one can never be sure.

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.

We bear the world and we make it... There was never a great man who had not a great mother - it is hardly an exaggeration.
We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.
He was one of those men who think that the world can be saved by writing a pamphlet.
I guess we'd be living in a boring, perfect world if everybody wished everybody else well.
Man is only miserable so far as he thinks himself so.
A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.

I travelled with the heroes of the stories.

My theory of evolution is that Darwin was adopted.
The most erroneous stories are those we think we know best - and therefore never scrutinize or question.
When someone does something good, applaud! You will make two people happy.
Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.
If our early lessons of acceptance were as successful as our early lessons of anger, how much happier we would all be.
Turn the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles.
I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate.

As you have some land around the house you can build outhouses; and if I lived in a detached house I would certainly build a garage, a summer house, maybe a padding pool and certainly I would arrange some flowerbeds as I adore flowers.

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 a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk?
A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory.
Terrorists killed a lot fewer people than bathroom falls and accidental electrocutions.
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.
Summer afternoon - Summer afternoon... the two most beautiful words in the English language.
You always pass failure on the way to success.

Never eat more than you can lift.

It?s like your batteries get low, and you need to charge them on someone else?s story.
Write a wise saying and your name will live forever.
A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a man of wit, and a pebble in the hand of a fool.
The more freedom we enjoy, the greater the responsibility we bear, toward others as well as ourselves.
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.
We cannot deny the facts of nature, but we should certainly try to improve on them.
I have never been especially impressed by the heroics of people who are convinced they are about to change the world. I am more awed by those who struggle to make one small difference after another.

ponedjeljak, 11.10.2010.

Keep your broken arm inside your sleeve.

I never met anybody who said when they were a kid, "I wanna grow up and be a critic."
He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.
What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!
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 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.
Summer afternoon - Summer afternoon... the two most beautiful words in the English language.
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.

When you make a mistake, don't look back at it long. Take the reason of the thing into your mind and then look forward. Mistakes are lessons of wisdom. The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.

Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out and minutely articulated.
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.
Hope is tomorrow's veneer over today's disappointment.
The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star.
I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.

Every year, thousands of tourists visit Ayers Rock and a strange group of huge red stones called ?the Olgas?.

Sack over my head and cinched it tight around my windpipe.
Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.
Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the game, and dumb enough to think it's important.
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'd never really believed in terrorists before.
It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.
The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd; indeed in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widespread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible.

They weren't wearing insignia.

You freeze where you are, time stops, and your heart thunders in your ears.
Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.
I shouted, and earned a hard thump on my head for my trouble.
Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
We are what we repeatedly do.
Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.

It is also very different from the other states.

The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry is like the potato - the best part under ground.
Electricity is actually made up of extremely tiny particles called electrons, that you cannot see with the naked eye unless you have been drinking.
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.
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.
To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best day and night to make you like everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight and never stop fighting.
Never despair; but if you do, work on in despair.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.

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?

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.
Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.
Sack over my head and cinched it tight around my windpipe.
All things are difficult before they are easy.
I despise the pleasure of pleasing people that I despise.
The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.
Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.

Home is a place that awakens the most pleasant feelings and high emotions in soul of every person.

As I get older, I've learned to listen to people rather than accuse them of things.
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
I hope that when I die, people say about me, 'Boy, that guy sure owed me a lot of money.'
Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.
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.'
We do not believe if we do not live and work according to our belief.
The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.

The city was founded in 1791 and named after the first president.

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.
You freeze where you are, time stops, and your heart thunders in your ears.
Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that's where you renew your springs that never dry up.
Your parents, they give you your life, but then they try to give you their life.
No one goes there nowadays, it's too crowded.
But be, as you have been, my happiness...
A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money.

The Civil War and Reconstruction Years

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 only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
Love truth, and pardon error.
To be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
Man is only miserable so far as he thinks himself so.
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.
The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.

nedjelja, 10.10.2010.

However, legislation itself creates only a certain legal environment, certain conditions for equality, but does not ensure their fulfillment.

My father hated radio and could not wait for television to be invented so he could hate that too.
A chess genius is a human being who focuses vast, little-understood mental gifts and labors on an ultimately trivial human enterprise.
As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
Late to bed and late to wake will keep you long on money and short on mistakes.
He attacked everything in life with a mix of extrordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which was which.
Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.
The faceless, eyeless armed man above me kept his gun very level.

Swift meant this small country with it's shallow interest, corrupted laws and evil customs to symbolize the England of the 18'th centure, the court with it's atmosphere of hostility, hypocrizy and flattery where the author felt as lonely as his hero when

Nothing is impossible. Some things are just less likely than others.
He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.
Nobody is ever met at the airport when beginning a new adventure. It's just not done.
Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality.
Starting with getting run down by a drunk burning his way down Valencia -- that were infinitely more likely and immediate than terrorists.
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.'
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.

In the cultivated areas that make up most of Britain there are many wild flowers, flowering plants and grasses.

Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
My theory of evolution is that Darwin was adopted.
Talking with you is sort of the conversational equivalent of an out of body experience.
Oh, I don't blame Congress. If I had $600 billion at my disposal, I'd be irresponsible, too.
Anger at lies lasts forever. Anger at truth can't last.
The faceless, eyeless armed man above me kept his gun very level.
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.

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.

The lesson which life repeats and constantly enforces is 'look under foot.' You are always nearer the divine and the true sources of your power than you think.
Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.
Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
Be honorable yourself if you wish to associate with honorable people.
I didn't even breathe.
A doctor saves lives -- It's up to people to create lives that are worth saving.
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.

Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.

It's all right to have butterflies in your stomach. Just get them to fly in formation.
The most erroneous stories are those we think we know best - and therefore never scrutinize or question.
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.
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
Deeds, not words shall speak 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.
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 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!'

Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis.
The only difference between a rut and a grave... is in their dimensions.
I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty... But I am too busy thinking about myself.
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.
I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
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.

TV is chewing gum for the eyes.

There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.
Maybe they were terrorists!
You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play.
An idea is salvation by imagination.
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.
Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality.
Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day.

He or she can help you determine whether you have a drinking problem and, if so, recommend the best course of action for you.

The average person thinks he isn't.
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.
Do it now. It is not safe to leave a generous feeling to the cooling influences of the world.
We may not imagine how our lives could be more frustrating and complex--but Congress can.
There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.
I like to play blackjack. I'm not addicted to gambling, I'm addicted to sitting in a semi-circle.
Most of the basic truths of life sound absurd at first hearing.

The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.

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.
If our early lessons of acceptance were as successful as our early lessons of anger, how much happier we would all be.
When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.
Somebody has to do something, and it's just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.
The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is inefficiency. An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty.
Someone's boring me. I think it's me.
The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.

subota, 09.10.2010.

Bush secured the presidency with a victory in the electoral college when he won Florida by an extremely narrow margin and outlasted Gore's unsuccessful court challenge of the Florida vote-counting process.

Where facts are few, experts are many.
I gathered we were headed over Nob Hill, and from the angle, it seemed we were taking one of the steeper routes.
You never know how a horse will pull until you hook him up to a heavy load.
It was a military-looking Jeep, like an armored Hummer, only it didn't have any military insignia on it.
It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.
Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality.
The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.

The summer months are June, July and August.

I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
Worries go down better with soup than without.
Assuming either the Left Wing or the Right Wing gained control of the country, it would probably fly around in circles.
Funny business, a woman's career: the things you drop on the way up the ladder so you can move faster. You forget you'll need them again when you get back to being a woman. It's one career all females have in common, whether we like it or not: being a woman.
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.
An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought.

Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.

I never met anybody who said when they were a kid, "I wanna grow up and be a critic."
When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.
It is not enough to do good; one must do it the right way.
A doctor saves lives -- It's up to people to create lives that are worth saving.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
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.
The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.

No whiskey can be released from bond in Great Britain until it has matured in wood at least three years, and in practice most whiskey is stored seven or eight years before marketing. In the United States bonded whiskey must stay a minimum of four years i

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.
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.
Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.
Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.
I was in total darkness now and I strained my ears to hear what was going on with my friends.
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.
It's a dangerous business going out your front door.

The novel describes the tragic fate of a boy and a girl, Clyde and Roberta by name. It is a sad story.

When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.
You create your opportunities by asking for them.
Electricity is actually made up of extremely tiny particles called electrons, that you cannot see with the naked eye unless you have been drinking.
We succeed only as we identify in life, or in war, or in anything else, a single overriding objective, and make all other considerations bend to that one objective.
If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk?
To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all.
I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.

Those include Data, Optics, Phaenomena, and On Division of Figures.

Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.
You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.
The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half the time.
Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.
We play the hands of cards life gives us. And the worst hands can make us the best players.
Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.

All the world's a cage.

We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.
Up ahead, I saw someone, a middle-aged lady in a hippie dress, falter and fall.
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.
I have a simple philosophy. Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. And scratch where it itches.
Each individual woman's body demands to be accepted on its own terms.
Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.

Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.

If you scatter thorns, don't go barefoot.
It felt like they used a baton or something -- it was harder than anyone had ever hit me in the head before.
I'm going to stay in show business until I'm the last one left.
The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility.
It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.
We all have strength enough to endure the misfortunes of others.
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 no control over what the other guy does. You only have control over what you do.

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.
To achieve great things we must live as though we were never going to die.
The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.
Make hunger thy sauce, as a medicine for health.
Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.
Darryl wasn't in good shape -- he was white-faced and panting.
Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.

srijeda, 06.10.2010.

While students no longer read directly from his writing, the textbooks of today are still based on Euclidean proofs and theorems.

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 doctor saves lives -- It's up to people to create lives that are worth saving.
I have never been especially impressed by the heroics of people who are convinced they are about to change the world. I am more awed by those who struggle to make one small difference after another.
The better part of valor is discretion, in the which better part I have saved my life.
Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards.
Summer afternoon - Summer afternoon... the two most beautiful words in the English language.
Sometimes love will pick you up by the short hairs...and jerk the heck out of you.

Benjamin Harrison defeated Cleveland in 1888 but lost to him in 1892.

When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.
The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from Science, along with behaviour control, genetic engineering, transplanted heads, computer poetry and the unrestrained growth of plastic flowers.
Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality.
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.
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 eventually leads to success.
I guess we'd be living in a boring, perfect world if everybody wished everybody else well.
Where facts are few, experts are many.

Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy those are who already possess it.

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.
Sooner or later, we've got to work at it, no matter how many other careers we've had or wanted.
Americans are benevolently ignorant about Canada, while Canadians are malevolently well informed about the United States.
Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
Maybe the most any of us can expect of ourselves isn't perfection but progress.
Who were these clowns?
Maybe they were terrorists!

It was difficult to write a book with a pen.

No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.
Man is only miserable so far as he thinks himself so.
Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.
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.
Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.
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.
When someone does something good, applaud! You will make two people happy.

The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.

Doubt 'til thou canst doubt no more...doubt is thought and thought is life. Systems which end doubt are devices for drugging thought.
He who laughs, lasts!
Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis.
Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.
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 a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest.
Maybe they were terrorists!

He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.

When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers.
...happiness gives us the energy which is the basis of health.
Speak when you are angry--and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret.
Sometimes the cure for restlessness is rest.
He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.
I like to play blackjack. I'm not addicted to gambling, I'm addicted to sitting in a semi-circle.
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.

Most of the crimes were committed in some closed surroundings with a limited number of people to suspect.

Money doesn't always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are no happier than people with nine million dollars.
As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.
Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. And man can be as big as he wants. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.
When all is said and done, the weather and love are the two elements about which one can never be sure.
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.
To try to be better is to be better.

Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth?Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.

Seize opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind.
Money doesn't always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are no happier than people with nine million dollars.
When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.
The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it.
Nothing in the world can take the place of Persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan 'Press On' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.
Starting with getting run down by a drunk burning his way down Valencia -- that were infinitely more likely and immediate than terrorists.
A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a man of wit, and a pebble in the hand of a fool.

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.

Summer afternoon - Summer afternoon... the two most beautiful words in the English language.
The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.
I got up the third step and reached for the fourth, but it wasn't there.
A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
Nothing is as simple as we hope it will be.
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.

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

He who laughs, lasts!
He who is not very strong in memory should not meddle with lying.
You're dealing with the demon of external validation. You can't beat external validation. You want to know why? Because it feels sooo good.
You can have it all. You just can't have it all at once.
Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.
Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to be caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self.
I like an escalator because an escalator can never break, it can only become stairs. There would never be an escalator temporaly out of order sign, only an escalator temporarily stairs. Sorry for the convenience.

So I know it for sure that appearances are deceptive.

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.
Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain.
True friends are those who really know you but love you anyway.
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.
Money frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy.
Maybe they were terrorists!
Funny business, a woman's career: the things you drop on the way up the ladder so you can move faster. You forget you'll need them again when you get back to being a woman. It's one career all females have in common, whether we like it or not: being a woman.

And there they found Guy Fawker about to fire a trail of gunpowder.

You should not live one way in private, another in public.
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 best way out is always through.
Make a decision, even if it's wrong.
Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.
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.
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.

You should not live one way in private, another in public.

Sometimes love will pick you up by the short hairs...and jerk the heck out of you.
Now is the time for all good men to come to.
Where facts are few, experts are many.
For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
Someone dragged me by my arms out onto the road, then shoved me, stumbling, down a paved road.
The summer night is like a perfection of thought.
Do not be awe struck by other people and try to copy them. Nobody can be you as efficiently as you can.

In the right light, at the right time, everything is extraordinary.

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.
Someone's boring me. I think it's me.
How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!
I wrote myself a check for ten million dollars for acting services rendered and dated it Thanksgiving 1995. I put it in my wallet and it deteriorated. And then, just before Thanksgiving 1995, I found out I was going to make ten million dollars for Dumb & Dumber. I put that check in the casket with my father because it was our dream together.
Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.
I went up the stairs cautiously, not able to use my hands.
I used to think that the brain was the most wonderful organ in my body. Then I realized who was telling me this.

When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time.

Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
He who boasts of his ancestry is praising the deeds of another.
Deeds, not words shall speak me.
Electricity is actually made up of extremely tiny particles called electrons, that you cannot see with the naked eye unless you have been drinking.
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
But be, as you have been, my happiness...
Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis.

If a relapse occurs, it is very important to try to stop drinking once again and to get whatever additional support is needed to abstain from drinking.

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.
To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best day and night to make you like everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight and never stop fighting.
Dance is the hidden language of the soul.
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.
Sorrow was like the wind. It came in gusts.
Maybe they were terrorists!
The Americans have need of the telephone, but we do not. We have plenty of messenger boys.

This custom was next recorded in the middle ages when German peasants lit tapers on birthday cakes, the number lit indicating the person's age, plus an extra one to represent the light of life. From earliest days burning tapers had been endoued with mysti

Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
Truly great madness cannot be achieved without significant intelligence.
Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.
As I neared her, I bent to help her up, and was nearly knocked over her.
I kept talking. "Listen -- this is some kind of misunderstanding.
Sometimes the cure for restlessness is rest.

The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.

Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.
Up ahead, I saw someone, a middle-aged lady in a hippie dress, falter and fall.
If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.
Turn the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles.
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.
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.
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.

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

The car skidded to a stop just in front of me, and I jumped back and lost my balance and ended up on the road.
There are a terrible lot of lies going around the world, and the worst of it is half of them are true.
Dance is the hidden language of the soul.
We need anything politically important rationed out like Pez: small, sweet, and coming out of a funny, plastic head.
Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far.
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.
The art of dining well is no slight art, the pleasure not a slight pleasure.

In the United States the early colleges were also religiously controlled, and there are still some denominational schools that define areas of inquiry.

The strongest possible piece of advice I would give any young woman is: Don't screw around, and don't smoke.
If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
I barely had time to register them before those rifles were pointed at me.
I am not sincere, even when I say I am not.
The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.
God creates men, but they choose each other.
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.

The undertaking of a new action brings new strength.

The engine died and then the doors swung open.
It is hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head.
Everyone wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant.
Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.
Van was screaming something and Jolu was shouting and I looked at them for a second and that was when someone put a coarse.
If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought.

I looked up and saw a bunch of military-looking guys in coveralls, holding big, bulky rifles and wearing hooded gas masks with tinted face-plates.

Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.
Nothing is said that has not been said before.
Money doesn't always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are no happier than people with nine million dollars.
My home is not a place, it is people.
The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
Well done is better than well said.
He who laughs, lasts!

The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.

Why do writers write? Because it isn't there.
Nobody is ever met at the airport when beginning a new adventure. It's just not done.
Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.
I don't own a cell phone or a pager. I just hang around everyone I know, all the time. If someone wants to get a hold of me, they just say 'Mitch,' and I say 'what?' and turn my head slightly.
Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.
Fresh clean sheets are one of life's small joys.
We should every night call ourselves to an account; What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed? What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired? Our vices will abort of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.

Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out and minutely articulated.

Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.
Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.
Even the fear of death is nothing compared to the fear of not having lived authentically and fully.
I'm moving, but don't worry! Someone once told me we're all on the same planet, so I'll be okay!
The world tolerates conceit from those who are successful, but not from anybody else.
You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans.
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.

Although he may not have written The Elements entirely on his own, his other works are certainly his alone.

I ended up stepping on her stomach as the crowd pushed me past her, but by then I don't think she was feeling anything.
Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that of another.
Some people make headlines while others make history.
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.
You create your opportunities by asking for them.
A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of.
Never eat more than you can lift.

So, we may say that the British climate has three main features: it is mild, humid and changeable.

Think of yourself as an incandescent power, illuminated and perhaps forever talked to by God and his messengers.
The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.
The undertaking of a new action brings new strength.
The summer night is like a perfection of thought.
You should not live one way in private, another in public.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

So he wrote a letter to Lord Monteagle begging him to make some excuse to be absent from parliament if he valued his life.

All movements go too far.
Anger at lies lasts forever. Anger at truth can't last.
Be thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till all commend.
My theory of evolution is that Darwin was adopted.
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.
Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.
Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.

utorak, 05.10.2010.

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!

Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half the time.
A hobby a day keeps the doldrums away.
We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language.
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.
In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from.
Be a good listener. Your ears will never get you in trouble.
Having a holiday weekend without a family member felt like putting on a sweater that had an extra arm.

For most people, alcohol is a pleasant accompaniment to social activities.

Part of being creative is learning how to protect your freedom. That includes freedom from avarice.
Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment.
So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.
The great art of giving consists in this: the gift should cost very little and yet be greatly coveted, so that it may be the more highly appreciated.
Arguments are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often convincing.
Intimacy is being seen and known as the person you truly are.
Without the capacity to provide its own information, the mind drifts into randomness.

When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.

Feet, why do I need them if I have wings to fly?
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.
Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.
Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.
Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.
The summer night is like a perfection of thought.
Memory feeds imagination.

With the election, however, Republican domination of the South and radical rule of the party were definitely ended.

If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read "President Can't Swim".
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.
I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
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.
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.
Sometimes the cure for restlessness is rest.

I?m telling you, things are getting out of hand. Or maybe I?m discovering that things were never in my hands.

If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.
I use an optimistic, positive approach to deal with my symptoms and it came the hard way, before I learned to laugh with myself a little.
Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.
Editor: a person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed.
Maybe the most any of us can expect of ourselves isn't perfection but progress.
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 don't think about risks much. I just do what I want to do. If you gotta go, you gotta go.

Preventing Alcohol Problems in the Workplace

The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.
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.
When someone does something good, applaud! You will make two people happy.
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' (I found it!) but 'That's funny ...'
Better shun the bait, than struggle in the snare.
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.
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.

It is not a secret that our meals influence much on our mood.

Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.
If you scatter thorns, don't go barefoot.
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.
So quick and so fiercely I barely had time to gasp before it was locked on me.
Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.
I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.
Keep your broken arm inside your sleeve.

All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance.

There?s so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets?
There are always survivors at a massacre. Among the victors, if nowhere else.
It had only one fault. It was kind of lousy.
I have always felt that a politician is to be judged by the animosities he excites among his opponents.
All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance.
The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.
Sometimes love will pick you up by the short hairs...and jerk the heck out of you.

The process of reading demands lots of thinking on the part of the reader because reading exists not only for entertainment.

Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.
Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke.
You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too.
Nobody is ever met at the airport when beginning a new adventure. It's just not done.
When you make a mistake, don't look back at it long. Take the reason of the thing into your mind and then look forward. Mistakes are lessons of wisdom. The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.
You freeze where you are, time stops, and your heart thunders in your ears.

subota, 02.10.2010.

The nature of treatment depends on the severity of an individual's alcoholism and the resources that are available in his or her community.

The engine died and then the doors swung open.
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.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
There are plenty of good five-cent cigars in the country. The trouble is they cost a quarter. What this country needs is a good five-cent nickel.
I am not young enough to know everything.
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.
When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest.

Darryl wasn't in good shape -- he was white-faced and panting.

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.
All things are difficult before they are easy.
Worries go down better with soup than without.
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.
Doubt 'til thou canst doubt no more...doubt is thought and thought is life. Systems which end doubt are devices for drugging thought.
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
College isn't the place to go for ideas.

There is wide variation in the existence of alcohol policies, in employees' awareness of them, and in their enforcement in workplaces across the country.

Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.
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.
Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
Never be a cynic, even a gentle one. Never help out a sneer, even at the devil.
TV is chewing gum for the eyes.
You know what's interesting about Washington? It's the kind of place where second-guessing has become second nature.
Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.

By prizing heartfulness above faultlessness, we may reap more from our effort because we're more likely to be changed by it.

The most beautiful adventures are not those we go to seek.
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.
A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.
There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers.
All human situations have their inconveniences. We feel those of the present but neither see nor feel those of the future; and hence we often make troublesome changes without amendment, and frequently for the worse.

With support and treatment, many individuals are able to stop drinking and rebuild their lives.

The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.
A neurosis is a secret that you don't know you are keeping.
I ended up stepping on her stomach as the crowd pushed me past her, but by then I don't think she was feeling anything.
It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.
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.'
Truly great madness cannot be achieved without significant intelligence.

Other analysts believe the earth could support 7 to 12 billion people at a decent standard of living by distributing the world's land and food supply more equitably and shifting from less abundant resources (such as lead, tin, uranium, oil, and natural g

If our early lessons of acceptance were as successful as our early lessons of anger, how much happier we would all be.
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.
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.
You should not live one way in private, another in public.
The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from Science, along with behaviour control, genetic engineering, transplanted heads, computer poetry and the unrestrained growth of plastic flowers.
Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that you live, if you do.
A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money.

? Genetic research: Scientists are now studying 3,000 individuals from several hundred families with a history of alcoholism in order to pinpoint the location of genes that influence vulnerability to alcoholism.

Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd be grown up.
We cannot destroy kindred: Our chains stretch a little sometimes, but they never break.
Good taste is the enemy of comedy.
Be careful that victories do not carry the seed of future defeats.
Starting with getting run down by a drunk burning his way down Valencia -- that were infinitely more likely and immediate than terrorists.
There are no wise few. Every aristocracy that has ever existed has behaved, in all essential points, exactly like a small mob.

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

My theory of evolution is that Darwin was adopted.
Someone went upside my head again.
There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.
You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.
Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.
There is an applause superior to that of the multitudes: one's own.
The more freedom we enjoy, the greater the responsibility we bear, toward others as well as ourselves.

To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.

I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
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.
Nothing is said that has not been said before.
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
Creative work is play. It is free speculation using materials of one's chosen form.
Vigorous writing is concise.
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.

You can any types of food in restaurants ? you can try homemade cakes, beefsteaks, pasta and macaroni and others.

Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.
Take a two-mile walk every morning before breakfast.
Be careful that victories do not carry the seed of future defeats.
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
The crowd gives the leader new strength.
Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.
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.

If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk?

Better by far you should forget and smile than you should remember and be sad.
An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.
Laughter is supposed to be the best medicine, however, it should never be at the expense of someone?s feelings or ignoring truth.
It is never too late to give up our prejudices.
Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.
He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.

To repeat what others have said, requires education; to challenge it, requires brains.

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?
I am not young enough to know everything.
Your parents, they give you your life, but then they try to give you their life.
It was enough to make a body ashamed of the human race.
We can be sure that the greatest hope for maintaining equilibrium in the face of any situation rests within ourselves.
In the right light, at the right time, everything is extraordinary.
There is no stigma attached to recognizing a bad decision in time to install a better one.

Autumn is the season of fruit and vegetables, lots of people pick mushrooms up in the forest and dry them for winter.

I didn't even breathe.
It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.
Each individual woman's body demands to be accepted on its own terms.
If my mental map was right, we were heading down to Fisherman's Wharf.
Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that's where you renew your springs that never dry up.
The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it.
Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.

Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.

Time is that quality of nature which keeps events from happening all at once. Lately it doesn't seem to be working.
The Past is to be respected and acknoledged, but not to be worshiped. It is our future in which we will find our greatness.
It is better to wear out than to rust out.
We rocked to a stop still on a downslope.
The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.
Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anyone else.
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.