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subota, 27.11.2010.

For the most part, fear is nothing but an illusion. When you share it with someone else, it tends to disappear.

When all is said and done, the weather and love are the two elements about which one can never be sure.
Even the best of friends need time apart.
Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.
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.
Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.
There is no nonsense so errant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action.
A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead. A man with ambition and love for his blessings here on earth is ever so alive. Having been alive, it won't be so hard in the end to lie down and rest.

My mother fixed me a hot lemonade but that didn't help me much.

Electricity is actually made up of extremely tiny particles called electrons, that you cannot see with the naked eye unless you have been drinking.
Van was screaming something and Jolu was shouting and I looked at them for a second and that was when someone put a coarse.
What children take from us, they give?We become people who feel more deeply, question more deeply, hurt more deeply, and love more deeply.
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
That you may retain your self-respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right, than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong.
I define comfort as self-acceptance. When we finally learn that self-care begins and ends with ourselves, we no longer demand sustenance and happiness from others.
There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.

Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity.

Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
TV is chewing gum for the eyes.
I like coincidences. They make me wonder about destiny, and whether free will is an illusion or just a matter of perspective. They let me speculate on the idea of some master plan that, from time to time, we're allowed to see out of the corner of our eye.
Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives.
When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time.
Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.
The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco.

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.

We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe.
I got up the third step and reached for the fourth, but it wasn't there.
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.
History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.
People fail forward to success.
The summer night is like a perfection of thought.
A rumor without a leg to stand on will get around some other way.

All great truths begin as blasphemies.

He had learned over the years that poor people did not feel so poor when allowed to give occasionally.
If it weren't for baseball, many kids wouldn't know what a millionaire looked like.
They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.
Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself...True happiness is born of self-reliance.
The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.
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.
We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.

The Americans have need of the telephone, but we do not. We have plenty of messenger boys.

Man is only miserable so far as he thinks himself so.
Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.
Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.
Money doesn't always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are no happier than people with nine million dollars.
Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.
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.
I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.

Eating too much junk food can cause overweight and as heart-disease.

People fail forward to success.
Keep cool and you command everybody.
Normal is not something to aspire to, it's something to get away from.
By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd be grown up.
Music is essentially useless, as life is.
I never know how much of what I say is true.
From the moment I picked up your book until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.

They found a high correlation between the level of human suffering and the rate of population increase in countries. The 30 countries falling in the extreme human-suffering range--all in Africa and Asia--averaged a high annual rate of population increase

The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.
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.'
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'.
No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.
Everyone wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant.
Money doesn't always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are no happier than people with nine million dollars.
If there's one thing I know it's God does love a good joke.

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

They can conquer who believe they can.
The hands behind me gave me another shove.
Why the hell would terrorists kidnap a bunch of high school students?
Treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.
There are always survivors at a massacre. Among the victors, if nowhere else.
It's never just a game when you're winning.
You always pass failure on the way to success.

Hedgehogs, hares, rabbits, rats and mice are numerous. Deer live in some of the forests in the Highlands of Scotland and England.

Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day, it will make itself felt at the end of the year.
Better by far you should forget and smile than you should remember and be sad.
A rumor without a leg to stand on will get around some other way.
Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers.
So quick and so fiercely I barely had time to gasp before it was locked on me.
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.

A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top .

It is not enough to aim; you must hit.
Joy is prayer - Joy is strength - Joy is love - Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.
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.
Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.
The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.
College isn't the place to go for ideas.

We came to the theatre long before the perfomance began.

Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.
I was not a child prodigy, because a child prodigy is a child who knows as much when it is a child as it does when it grows up.
Liberals are very broadminded: they are always willing to give careful consideration to both sides of the same side.
He who is not very strong in memory should not meddle with lying.
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.
A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
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 understandable that women decide to defer having children later or do not have children at all.

If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.
I lived what most people call the good life. I was happy, but deep inside I always felt that, with the short amount of time we are given to live and love in this world, we spend too much time loving things instead of people.
Why do writers write? Because it isn't there.
Is there life before death?
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.
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few; and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.
It is never too late to give up our prejudices.

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.

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.
They say such nice things about people at their funerals that it makes me sad to realize that I'm going to miss mine by just a few days.
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
Worries go down better with soup than without.
Speak when you are angry--and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret.
Now is the time for all good men to come to.
The 'Net is a waste of time, and that's exactly what's right about it.

There is an evil tendency underlying all our technology - the tendency to do what is reasonable even when it isn't any good.

Think of yourself as an incandescent power, illuminated and perhaps forever talked to by God and his messengers.
I have a simple philosophy. Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. And scratch where it itches.
The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
It is not enough to aim; you must hit.
Listen. Do not have an opinion while you listen because frankly, your opinion doesn?t hold much water outside of Your Universe. Just listen. Listen until their brain has been twisted like a dripping towel and what they have to say is all over the floor.
I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.
It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.

They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.

For me, it's that I contributed, ... That I'm on this planet doing some good and making people happy. That's to me the most important thing, that my hour of television is positive and upbeat and an antidote for all the negative stuff going on in life.
I shouted, and earned a hard thump on my head for my trouble.
Truth has beauty, power and necessity.
The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.
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.
There isn?t much better in this life than finding a way to spend a few hours in conversation with people you respect and love. You have to carve this time out of your life because you aren?t really living without it.
Books...are like lobster shells, we surround ourselves with 'em, then we grow out of 'em and leave 'em behind, as evidence of our earlier stages of development.

Obscurity is a good thing. You can fail in obscurity. It removes the fear of failure.

I mean, I knew that in the abstract there were terrorists somewhere in the world, but they didn't really represent any risk to me.
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 learning to discover and value our ordinariness, we nurture a friendliness toward ourselves and the world that is the essence of a healthy soul.
Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster. Your life will never be the same again.
A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a man of wit, and a pebble in the hand of a fool.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.
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.

četvrtak, 25.11.2010.

Despite not winning the popular vote.

Equal opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent.
Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.
Walking is man's best medicine.
We can be sure that the greatest hope for maintaining equilibrium in the face of any situation rests within ourselves.
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.
Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
Liberals are very broadminded: they are always willing to give careful consideration to both sides of the same side.

Alcohol abuse is defined as a pattern of drinking that is accompanied by one or more of the following situations within a 12-month period:

There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.
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.
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.
It is better to wear out than to rust out.
The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.
Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.
The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself.

Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.

Well done is better than well said.
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.
Vanessa didn't like it, but I figured a cop wasn't going to stop for a kid waving his hat in the street, not that day. They just might stop if they saw Darryl bleeding there, though. I argued briefly with her and Darryl settled it by lurching to his feet and dragging himself down toward Market Street.
Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.
Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack.
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.
You can have it all. You just can't have it all at once.

Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half the time.

Sometimes the cure for restlessness is rest.
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.
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.'
Never let the demands of tomorrow interfere with the pleasures and excitement of today.
You could get on a boat there, get away. That fit with the terrorism hypothesis.
Do not envy a sinner; you don't know what disaster awaits him.
Fresh clean sheets are one of life's small joys.

I know all the famous script writers, producers and cameramen.

It is not enough to aim; you must hit.
There were millions of ways that the world could kill me.
Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.
The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.
Anger at lies lasts forever. Anger at truth can't last.
Write a wise saying and your name will live forever.
Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.

Phaenomena is about planetary motions and Optics about perspectives.

No one goes there nowadays, it's too crowded.
I barely had time to register them before those rifles were pointed at me.
A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education.
All the world's a cage.
I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them.

There are a lot of films which are worth seeing, but this one is the best one to my mind.

I was pushed roughly but dispassionately onto my stomach and something went twice around my wrists and then tightened up as well, feeling like baling wire and biting cruelly.
Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.
Whatever you fear most has no power - it is your fear that has the power.
There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.
Get pleasure out of life...as much as you can. Nobody ever died from pleasure.
Nobody is ever met at the airport when beginning a new adventure. It's just not done.
It?s like your batteries get low, and you need to charge them on someone else?s story.

Happiness is something that lives inside each of us, but not all the people are able to feel it.

A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.
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.
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.
Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.
Skiing combines outdoor fun with knocking down trees with your face.
I've never quite believed that one chance is all I get.
People will buy anything that is one to a customer.

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

You couldn't even prove the White House staff sane beyond a reasonable doubt.
Equal opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent.
I like weights. You know where you stand with them. Well, sometimes you're lying under them, trying not to let them crush you, but you see, you KNOW they'd crush you if they could. There's honesty.
The better part of valor is discretion, in the which better part I have saved my life.
I went up the stairs cautiously, not able to use my hands.
I opened my mouth, then shut it, then, very slowly, I held my hands up in front of me.
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.

ponedjeljak, 22.11.2010.

The Elements was used as the primary geometry resource for over 2000 years, and his lessons could still be used today.

We rocked to a stop still on a downslope.
Make hunger thy sauce, as a medicine for health.
You create your opportunities by asking for them.
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.
If you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome; if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent; if you believe the military, nothing is safe.
When you have got an elephant by the hind leg, and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.
Nothing is said that has not been said before.

They see people overpopulation in MDCs (more developed countries) as threats to Earth's life support systems for us and other species.

You can go a long way with bad legs and a good head.
Best wide-angle lens? Two steps backward. Look for the 'ah-ha'.
Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.
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.
The two symbols of the Republican Party: an elephant, and a big fat white guy who is threatened by change.
I got up the third step and reached for the fourth, but it wasn't there.
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.

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

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'.
He who laughs, lasts!
It?s like your batteries get low, and you need to charge them on someone else?s story.
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 lost friends, some by death... others through sheer inability to cross the street.
God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
Use what you have to run toward your best - that's how I now live my life.

Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality... the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.

When I was a kid my parents moved a lot, but I always found them.
As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star.
Be careful that victories do not carry the seed of future defeats.
Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
All programmers are playwrights and all computers are lousy actors.

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.

You must not think me necessarily foolish because I am facetious, nor will I consider you necessarily wise because you are grave.
My theory of evolution is that Darwin was adopted.
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.
If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read "President Can't Swim".
Order is not pressure which is imposed on society from without, but an equilibrium which is set up from within.
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.

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

Things won are done; joy's soul lies in the doing.
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.
Do it now. It is not safe to leave a generous feeling to the cooling influences of the world.
I'd never really believed in terrorists before.
We inhereit from our ancestors gifts so often taken for granted... Each of us contains within... this inheritance of soul. We are links between the ages, containing past and present expectations, sacred memories and future promise.
The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.
I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.

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

The engine died and then the doors swung open.
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.'
It is never too late to give up our prejudices.
There isn?t much better in this life than finding a way to spend a few hours in conversation with people you respect and love. You have to carve this time out of your life because you aren?t really living without it.
Early morning cheerfulness can be extremely obnoxious.
A moment later, I caught my breath, but I didn't say anything.
I'd never really believed in terrorists before.

Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.

There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth.
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.
No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.
If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches.
I 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.
What children take from us, they give?We become people who feel more deeply, question more deeply, hurt more deeply, and love more deeply.
What's the earth With all its art, verse, music, worth - Compared with love, found, gained, and kept?

Sometimes you can't see yourself clearly until you see yourself through the eyes of others.

The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.
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.
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.
It had only one fault. It was kind of lousy.
Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
Maybe they were terrorists!

Agatha Christie lived between 1890 and 1976. She started writing stories at a very early age, at first to entertain herself.

Never eat more than you can lift.
Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.
Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life.
Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.
Books...are like lobster shells, we surround ourselves with 'em, then we grow out of 'em and leave 'em behind, as evidence of our earlier stages of development.
Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth?Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.
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.

He also advocated increased military spending and presided over the largest military buildup during peacetime in American history.

If you think taking care of yourself is selfish, change your mind. If you don't, you're simply ducking your responsibilities.
Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.
The first vehicle that screamed past -- an ambulance -- didn't even slow down.
Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster. Your life will never be the same again.
College isn't the place to go for ideas.
What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?
You freeze where you are, time stops, and your heart thunders in your ears.

In Cairo just breathing the air is life threatening- equivalent to smoking two packs of cigarettes a day.

We've got to get my friend to a hospital --"
Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality.
The only difference between a rut and a grave... is in their dimensions.
Intimacy is being seen and known as the person you truly are.
Having a holiday weekend without a family member felt like putting on a sweater that had an extra arm.
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
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 was in total darkness now and I strained my ears to hear what was going on with my friends.

You should not live one way in private, another in public.
The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.
Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives.
He was one of those men who think that the world can be saved by writing a pamphlet.
If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk?
Hope is tomorrow's veneer over today's disappointment.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.

subota, 13.11.2010.

Despite promises about sharing the world's wealth, the gap between the rich and poor has been getting larger since 1960.

Some people make headlines while others make history.
No.
How to Raise your I.Q. by Eating Gifted Children
I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
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.
Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
Books...are like lobster shells, we surround ourselves with 'em, then we grow out of 'em and leave 'em behind, as evidence of our earlier stages of development.

It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.

Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack.
Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch.
I am not young enough to know everything.
Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.
A hypocrite is a person who--but who isn't?
A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.

The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said.

Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.
By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd be grown up.
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.
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
Be sincere; be brief; be seated.
You can only cure retail but you can prevent .

No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.

Nothing is so awesomely unfamiliar as the familiar that discloses itself at the end of a journey.
The Americans have need of the telephone, but we do not. We have plenty of messenger boys.
Above all things, never be afraid. The enemy who forces you to retreat is himself afraid of you at that very moment.
When I was a kid my parents moved a lot, but I always found them.
Worries go down better with soup than without.
Talking with you is sort of the conversational equivalent of an out of body experience.
My mother loved children -- she would have given anything if I had been one.

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.

Fall is my favorite season in Los Angeles, watching the birds change color and fall from the trees.
I mean, I knew that in the abstract there were terrorists somewhere in the world, but they didn't really represent any risk to me.
If men could only know each other, they would neither idolize nor hate.
A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money.
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.
For visions come not to polluted eyes.
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.

Skiing combines outdoor fun with knocking down trees with your face.

Inspiration does exist, but it must find you working.
Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
Walking is man's best medicine.
Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.
Why the hell would terrorists kidnap a bunch of high school students?
Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
If men could only know each other, they would neither idolize nor hate.

Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards.

I guess we'd be living in a boring, perfect world if everybody wished everybody else well.
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.
If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.
Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.
You create your opportunities by asking for them.
An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought.
The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said.

Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only ad

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.
The next time a car appeared down Market Street, I stepped right out into the road, waving my arms over my head, shouting.
I've never quite believed that one chance is all I get.
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.
My father hated radio and could not wait for television to be invented so he could hate that too.
Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
Keep true to the dreams of thy youth.

Where we have strong emotions, we're liable to fool ourselves.

A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down.
Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.
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.
Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.
Keep true to the dreams of thy youth.
After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.
Never let the demands of tomorrow interfere with the pleasures and excitement of today.

utorak, 09.11.2010.

Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable.

It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.
The more freedom we enjoy, the greater the responsibility we bear, toward others as well as ourselves.
Eat a third and drink a third and leave the remaining third of your stomach empty. Then, when you get angry, there will be sufficient room for your rage.
I have very strong feelings about how you lead your life. You always look ahead, you never look back.
The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all men, charity.
I'm moving, but don't worry! Someone once told me we're all on the same planet, so I'll be okay!
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.

Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.

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.
Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.
If there is one thing worse than being an ugly duckling in a house of swans, it's having the swans pretend there's no difference.
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
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.
Nothing is impossible. Some things are just less likely than others.
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.

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.

Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life.
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.
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
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 was sick of cars driving right past me.
We are what we repeatedly do.
What makes the engine go? Desire, desire, desire.

Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent.

You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
Is there life before death?
What children take from us, they give?We become people who feel more deeply, question more deeply, hurt more deeply, and love more deeply.
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
It is not much for its beauty that makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanates from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.
We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.
Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.

The warm days of early autumn arc called the "Indian Summer" and it is really beautiful with its yellow, red and brown trees and golden leaves falling down.

You couldn't even prove the White House staff sane beyond a reasonable doubt.
Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.
Above all things, never be afraid. The enemy who forces you to retreat is himself afraid of you at that very moment.
The strongest possible piece of advice I would give any young woman is: Don't screw around, and don't smoke.
I heard Jolu respond, then felt the thump he was dealt, too.
Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.

There's so much pollution in the air now that if it weren't for our lungs there'd be no place to put it all.

Write a wise saying and your name will live forever.
To err is human, but to really foul things up requires a computer.
Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.
You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are; but you must approach each man by the right door.
We learn and grow and are transformed not so much by what we do but by why and how we do it.
The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it.
Darryl wasn't in good shape -- he was white-faced and panting.

The day fixed for attempt was the 5th of November, the day on which the Parliament was to open.

Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
It's all right to have butterflies in your stomach. Just get them to fly in formation.
Never let the demands of tomorrow interfere with the pleasures and excitement of today.
You can't just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they'll want something new.
The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.

Order is not pressure which is imposed on society from without, but an equilibrium which is set up from within.

The faceless, eyeless armed man above me kept his gun very level.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
I had no idea how much of this was making it through the muffling bag.
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
All great truths begin as blasphemies.
Arguments are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often convincing.
The strongest possible piece of advice I would give any young woman is: Don't screw around, and don't smoke.

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

The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco.
Americans are benevolently ignorant about Canada, while Canadians are malevolently well informed about the United States.
I have lost friends, some by death... others through sheer inability to cross the street.
I cried out and my own voice was muffled by the hood.
Normal is not something to aspire to, it's something to get away from.
It is only possible to live happily ever after on a day-to-day basis.
Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge.

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