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nedjelja, 27.02.2011.

The national academy of sciences and the library of congress are in Washington too.

Most of the basic truths of life sound absurd at first hearing.
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
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.
Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.
Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable.
When I was a kid my parents moved a lot, but I always found them.
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.

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

Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.
What some people mistake for the high cost of living is really the cost of high living.
I hope that when I die, people say about me, 'Boy, that guy sure owed me a lot of money.'
College isn't the place to go for ideas.
Without the capacity to provide its own information, the mind drifts into randomness.
The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
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.

Like anyone else, there are days I feel beautiful and days I don't, and when I don't, I do something about it.

I am doomed to an eternity of compulsive work. No set goal achieved satisfies. Success only breeds a new goal. The golden apple devoured has seeds. It is endless.
There is an alchemy in sorrow. It can be transmuted into wisdom, which, if it does not bring joy, can yet bring happiness.
The car slewed to a stop and only then did I notice that it wasn't a cop car, ambulance or fire-engine.
She got her looks from her father. He's a plastic surgeon.
Late to bed and late to wake will keep you long on money and short on mistakes.
Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
Order is not pressure which is imposed on society from without, but an equilibrium which is set up from within.

We rocked to a stop still on a downslope.

The hands behind me gave me another shove.
The Past is to be respected and acknoledged, but not to be worshiped. It is our future in which we will find our greatness.
Now we were descending just as steeply.
I'm going to stay in show business until I'm the last one left.
My father hated radio and could not wait for television to be invented so he could hate that too.
It's so much easier to write a resume than to craft a spirit.
It is only possible to live happily ever after on a day-to-day basis.

If nothing is done about it, one million species that are alive today will have become extinct twenty years from now.

It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.
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.
Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke.
Be thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till all commend.
The charity that hastens to proclaim its good deeds, ceases to be charity, and is only pride and ostentation.
TV is chewing gum for the eyes.
If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.

They have done this more or less every 5th of November since 1605.

Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.
Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment.
Inspiration does exist, but it must find you working.
Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
We've got to get my friend to a hospital --"
In the absences of a decent time machine, fiction remains the most sturdy vehicle for visiting other eras.
History is more or less bunk.

Now is the time for all good men to come to.

Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.
The faceless, eyeless armed man above me kept his gun very level.
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.
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.
The car slewed to a stop and only then did I notice that it wasn't a cop car, ambulance or fire-engine.
I'd never looked down the barrel of a gun before, but everything you've heard about the experience is true.
Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinions at all.

četvrtak, 02.12.2010.

For example, Brazilians never eat with their hands ? they always use a knife and a fork, even when they eat hotdogs.

Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
Whenever evil befalls us, we ought to ask ourselves, after the first suffering, how we can turn it into good. So shall we take occasion, from one bitter root, to raise perhaps many flowers.
The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said.
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.
Get pleasure out of life...as much as you can. Nobody ever died from pleasure.
Learning to live in the present moment is part of the path of joy.
Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality.

Your parents, they give you your life, but then they try to give you their life.

Nobody is ever met at the airport when beginning a new adventure. It's just not done.
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?
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.
By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd be grown up.
Act as if it were impossible to fail.
I know that you believe that you understood what you think I said, but I am not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.
It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.

It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.

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.'
Better shun the bait, than struggle in the snare.
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.
We need anything politically important rationed out like Pez: small, sweet, and coming out of a funny, plastic head.
I have lost friends, some by death... others through sheer inability to cross the street.
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 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.

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