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utorak, 29.06.2010.

Sorrow was like the wind. It came in gusts.

When I was a kid my parents moved a lot, but I always found them.
Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality... the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.
I don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is a language I don't understand.
Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.
Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anyone else.
Sorrow was like the wind. It came in gusts.
Joy is prayer - Joy is strength - Joy is love - Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.

We can be sure that the greatest hope for maintaining equilibrium in the face of any situation rests within ourselves.

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.
Somebody has to do something, and it's just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.
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 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.
There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers.
We are always in search of the redeeming formula, the crystallizing thought.
Hollywood is a place where they place you under contract instead of under observation.

In the mountains there is heavier rainfall then in the plains of the south and east.

My eyes swam and watered and I literally couldn't breathe through the pain.
Good breeding consists of concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.
Time is that quality of nature which keeps events from happening all at once. Lately it doesn't seem to be working.
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.
When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.
To be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

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

Experience is a good teacher, but she send in terrific bills.
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.
Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.
Never does the human soul appear so strong and noble as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury.
Oh, I don't blame Congress. If I had $600 billion at my disposal, I'd be irresponsible, too.
Where facts are few, experts are many.
History is more or less bunk.

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.

Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards.
Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.
I don't like composers who think. It gets in the way of their plagiarism.
Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
Sorrow was like the wind. It came in gusts.
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.
More bodies were roughly shoved in beside me.

Whatever you fear most has no power - it is your fear that has the power.

The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth that it prevents you from achieving.
If you refuse to be made straight when you are green, you will not be made straight when you are dry.
Laughter is supposed to be the best medicine, however, it should never be at the expense of someone?s feelings or ignoring truth.
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.
I used to believe that marriage would diminish me, reduce my options. That you had to be someone less to live with someone else when, of course, you have to be someone more.

The trick is to make sure you don't die waiting for prosperity to come.

By prizing heartfulness above faultlessness, we may reap more from our effort because we're more likely to be changed by it.
Health consists of having the same diseases as one's neighbors.
Think of life as a terminal illness, because, if you do, you will live it with joy and passion, as it ought to be lived.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
Time is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. Truth is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. You don't need anything else.
The summer night is like a perfection of thought.
Don't mace him!" I shouted over the din. "You'll get us all too.

Twenty-four percent reported any drinking at work at least once during the year before the survey.

Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone.
Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.
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.
Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.
Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
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.
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.

I was sick of cars driving right past me.

Time is that quality of nature which keeps events from happening all at once. Lately it doesn't seem to be working.
Worries go down better with soup than without.
I nearly fell again, but new hands grabbed me from in front and dragged me down a steel floor and then forced me to my knees and locked my hands to something behind me.
In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
The car slewed to a stop and only then did I notice that it wasn't a cop car, ambulance or fire-engine.
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.
How we remember, what we remember and why we remember form the most personal map of our individuality.

nedjelja, 27.06.2010.

And only in 1606 Dutch sailors reached the shores of the unknown continent, but it was not settled till the English Captain Cook discovered the East Coast in 1770.

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.
Sack over my head and cinched it tight around my windpipe.
There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.
Some people make headlines while others make history.
The faceless, eyeless armed man above me kept his gun very level.
Someone dragged me by my arms out onto the road, then shoved me, stumbling, down a paved road.
Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.

You have no control over what the other guy does. You only have control over what you do.

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.
Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.
A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them.
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
Intimacy is being seen and known as the person you truly are.

It often rains, both in winter and summer.

If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.
Here's to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes... the ones who see things differently -- they're not fond of rules... You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you can't do is ignore them because they change things... they push the human race forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius, because the ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do.
I never know how much of what I say is true.
I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters.
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.
Sometimes love will pick you up by the short hairs...and jerk the heck out of you.
I am not young enough to know everything.

You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.

It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.
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.
Nobody is ever met at the airport when beginning a new adventure. It's just not done.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.
Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy.
When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest.
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.

In the Northern Territory you will find the red heart of Australia.

Make a decision, even if it's wrong.
A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a man of wit, and a pebble in the hand of a fool.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
Better by far you should forget and smile than you should remember and be sad.
The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is inefficiency. An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty.
It was enough to make a body ashamed of the human race.
Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves.

četvrtak, 24.06.2010.

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.

Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn whatever state I am in, therin to be content
People fail forward to success.
She got her looks from her father. He's a plastic surgeon.
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars.
Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain.
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.

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

In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.
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.
I used to believe that marriage would diminish me, reduce my options. That you had to be someone less to live with someone else when, of course, you have to be someone more.
I have been through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.
He who boasts of his ancestry is praising the deeds of another.
It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.
We rarely think people have good sense unless they agree with us.

You must not think me necessarily foolish because I am facetious, nor will I consider you necessarily wise because you are grave.

I say luck is when an opportunity comes along, and you're prepared for it.
When someone does something good, applaud! You will make two people happy.
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.
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
For the night was not impartial. No, the night loved some more than others, served some more than others.
The car rocked back and forth and tipped uphill.
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.

If you don't know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else.

The trick is to make sure you don't die waiting for prosperity to come.
Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
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 lion and the calf shall lie down together but the calf won't get much sleep.
Why the hell would terrorists kidnap a bunch of high school students?
To do anything truly worth doing, I must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in with gusto and scramble through as well as I can.
My home is not a place, it is people.

Yesavage and Leirer (20) found evidence of impairment 14 hours after pilots reached blood alcohol concentrations (BACs) of between 0.10 percent and 0.12 percent.

Make a decision, even if it's wrong.
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.
I am here for a purpose and that purpose is to grow into a mountain, not to shrink to a grain of sand. Henceforth will I apply ALL my efforts to become the highest mountain of all and I will strain my potential until it cries for mercy.
A chess genius is a human being who focuses vast, little-understood mental gifts and labors on an ultimately trivial human enterprise.
Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up.
Maybe the most any of us can expect of ourselves isn't perfection but progress.
It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

As one of my friends says if you are not a handicapped person you are a really lucky and happy one.

Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.
Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself...True happiness is born of self-reliance.
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.
Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less.
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.
There were millions of ways that the world could kill me.
My philosophy is that not only are you responsible for your life, but doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.

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.

It's a dangerous business going out your front door.
Sometimes love will pick you up by the short hairs...and jerk the heck out of you.
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.
If my mental map was right, we were heading down to Fisherman's Wharf.
Beware the pull on your heartstrings -- it's often the pursestrings that are actually being reached for.
Thomas Jefferson once said, 'We should never judge a president by his age, only by his works.' And ever since he told me that, I stopped worrying.

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.

Summer afternoon - Summer afternoon... the two most beautiful words in the English language.
The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
Fall is my favorite season in Los Angeles, watching the birds change color and fall from the trees.
Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.
Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.

It is a good idea, that those who are late are not allowed to enter the hall until the news-reel is over.

Where facts are few, experts are many.
Your parents, they give you your life, but then they try to give you their life.
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.
Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.
I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.
I never vote for anyone; I always vote against.
How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!

utorak, 22.06.2010.

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

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.
Some people make headlines while others make history.
Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
I never know how much of what I say is true.
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.
Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
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.

I pay attention to the cover of the book, its illustrations, the name of the author, the title of the book and the contents.

I don't like composers who think. It gets in the way of their plagiarism.
If you really do put a small value upon yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price.
God creates men, but they choose each other.
Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves.
Maybe they were terrorists!
Nobody is ever met at the airport when beginning a new adventure. It's just not done.
Better shun the bait, than struggle in the snare.

One cannot speak about England without speaking about it's traditions and customs .

People will buy anything that is one to a customer.
The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility.
It is only possible to live happily ever after on a day-to-day basis.
A man can do all things if he but wills them.
Nothing can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.
Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.
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.

Nixon's successor, Gerald R. Ford , attempted to disassociate the party from the scandals, but Watergate appeared to be a major factor in the substantial Republican losses in the 1974 elections and in the subsequent defeat of Ford by the Democrat Jimmy C

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 makes the engine go? Desire, desire, desire.
Equal opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent.
Nothing changes your opinion of a friend so surely as success - yours or his.
It is impossible to walk rapidly and be unhappy.
The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
Everybody likes to go their own way--to choose their own time and manner of devotion.

Keep in mind, too, that every day that a recovering alcoholic has stayed sober prior to a relapse is extremely valuable time, both to the individual and to his or her family.

I was the kid next door's imaginary friend.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
Write a wise saying and your name will live forever.
The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.
A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?

The Republican victory with Herbert C.

Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.
O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.
Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.
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.
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.
Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down.

It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.

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.
When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time.
As a scientist, I am not sure anymore that life can be reduced to a class struggle, to dialectical materialism, or any set of formulas. Life is spontaneous and it is unpredictable, it is magical. I think that we have struggled so hard with the tangible that we have forgotten the intangible.
Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.
People fail forward to success.
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.
When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.

A lack of state financing in social programs has caused further tightening in the labor market, particularly for women.

For the most part, fear is nothing but an illusion. When you share it with someone else, it tends to disappear.
Each body has its art...
Without the capacity to provide its own information, the mind drifts into randomness.
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few; and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.
We play the hands of cards life gives us. And the worst hands can make us the best players.
In the right light, at the right time, everything is extraordinary.
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.

It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.
I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate.
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.
Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.
The only time to buy these is on a day with no 'y' in it.
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.
I stand in awe of my body.

nedjelja, 20.06.2010.

Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.

'Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.' Under the influence of this pestilent morality, I am forever letting tomorrow's work slop backwards into today's, and doing painfully and nervously today what I could do quickly and easily tomorrow.
It is only possible to live happily ever after on a day-to-day basis.
A chess genius is a human being who focuses vast, little-understood mental gifts and labors on an ultimately trivial human enterprise.
I kept talking. "Listen -- this is some kind of misunderstanding.
So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.
I got up the third step and reached for the fourth, but it wasn't there.
Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.

I was pleased to listen to the stories and tales. I learned a lot of interesting things from books.

I like to play blackjack. I'm not addicted to gambling, I'm addicted to sitting in a semi-circle.
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.
Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.

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.

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.
If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.
Be sincere; be brief; be seated.
We learn something every day, and lots of times it's that what we learned the day before was wrong.
You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.
For the most part, fear is nothing but an illusion. When you share it with someone else, it tends to disappear.

A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.

I was the kid next door's imaginary friend.
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 believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
Sack over my head and cinched it tight around my windpipe.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
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.
If you scatter thorns, don't go barefoot.

Appearances are really deceptive; it's like a wrap of a sweet.

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.
I write because I'm afraid to say some things out loud.
There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.
Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives.
The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all of your time.
All movements go too far.
Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone.

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.

History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.
Fall is my favorite season in Los Angeles, watching the birds change color and fall from the trees.
Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.
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.
Where facts are few, experts are many.
All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.
Facts are the enemy of truth.

? Set a drinking goal for yourself. Some people choose to abstain from alcohol, while others prefer to limit the amount they drink.

He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.
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.
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.
Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.
It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.
The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.

Her way to present the stories was quite definite from that of her colleagues.

We think in generalities, but we live in detail.
It's important to begin a search on a full stomach.
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.
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.
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.
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 truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.

He who boasts of his ancestry is praising the deeds of another.

Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that of another.
Truth has beauty, power and necessity.
A man is too apt to forget that in this world he cannot have everything. A choice is all that is left him.
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 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 lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.

petak, 18.06.2010.

Never part without loving words to think of during your absence. It may be that you will not meet again in life.

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.
Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that of another.
Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.
Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.
Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
Well done is better than well said.

Tasmania, the island south of Australia, is small.

The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
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.
Sorrow was like the wind. It came in gusts.
If my mental map was right, we were heading down to Fisherman's Wharf.
You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans.
Darryl wasn't in good shape -- he was white-faced and panting.
Hares can gambol over the body of a dead lion.

The wrong side of the bed was the left side.

We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
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I went up the stairs cautiously, not able to use my hands.
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.
Be thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till all commend.
If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.
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.'

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.

How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!
A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down.
I've been on a diet for two weeks and all I've lost is two weeks.
The great thing about a computer notebook is that no matter how much you stuff into it, it doesn't get bigger or heavier.
Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even... knowledge, was foolproof.
It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.

In 1948 the Republican party was supremely confident of defeating Roosevelt's successor, Harry S. Truman.

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.
I gathered we were headed over Nob Hill, and from the angle, it seemed we were taking one of the steeper routes.
If there's one thing I know it's God does love a good joke.
A hypocrite is a person who--but who isn't?
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.
A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
Equal opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent.

Van's sweater was soaked in blood.

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.
Peace is when time doesn't matter as it passes by.
It is fortunate to be of high birth, but it is no less so to be of such character that people do not care to know whether you are or are not.
The charity that hastens to proclaim its good deeds, ceases to be charity, and is only pride and ostentation.
Better shun the bait, than struggle in the snare.
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.
Let not the sands of time get in your lunch.

Everything else in this country is on a correspondent scale.

I'd never really believed in terrorists before.
Liberals are very broadminded: they are always willing to give careful consideration to both sides of the same side.
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
The habit of giving only enhances the desire to give.
He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.
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.
There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.

If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.

There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.
The engine died and then the doors swung open.
If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
So quick and so fiercely I barely had time to gasp before it was locked on me.
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.
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.
Confidence is the sexiest thing a woman can have. It's much sexier than any body part.

I barely had time to register them before those rifles were pointed at me.

The pain of making the necessary sacrifices always hurts more than you think it's going to. I know. It sucks. That being said, doing something seriously creative is one of the most amazing experiences one can have, in this or any other lifetime. If you can pull it off, it's worth it. Even if you don't end up pulling it off, you'll learn many incredible, magical, valuable things. It's NOT doing it when you know you full well you HAD the opportunity- that hurts FAR more than any failure.
The habit of giving only enhances the desire to give.
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.
It was enough to make a body ashamed of the human race.
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 is hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head.
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.

There are always survivors at a massacre. Among the victors, if nowhere else.

Darryl wasn't in good shape -- he was white-faced and panting.
Each body has its art...
Worries go down better with soup than without.
A doctor saves lives -- It's up to people to create lives that are worth saving.
The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.
Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.
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.'

The Republican "old guard," led by Roscoe Conkling , while failing to secure a third nomination for Grant in 1880, nevertheless temporarily blocked the presidential aspirations of James G. Blaine .

There is an alchemy in sorrow. It can be transmuted into wisdom, which, if it does not bring joy, can yet bring happiness.
It's so much easier to write a resume than to craft a spirit.
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.
As a scientist, I am not sure anymore that life can be reduced to a class struggle, to dialectical materialism, or any set of formulas. Life is spontaneous and it is unpredictable, it is magical. I think that we have struggled so hard with the tangible that we have forgotten the intangible.
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.
My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
Someone went upside my head again.

Fascinating though it is for tourist travelling, however, has become the most tiring of all the occupations for many businessmen and experts.

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.
Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
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.
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.
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.
What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?
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.

Orchestras in Britain have no concert halls of their own, but play in halls rented from local authorities or private companies.

Each body has its art...
Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch.
College isn't the place to go for ideas.
A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
If God had wanted us to vote, he would have given us candidates.
Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.
The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.

Creative work is play. It is free speculation using materials of one's chosen form.

There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.
I wanted to flag you down because my friend was bleeding. Someone stabbed him."
Even the fear of death is nothing compared to the fear of not having lived authentically and fully.
It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.
There is surely a piece of divinity in us, something that was before the elements, and owes no homage unto the sun.
Get pleasure out of life...as much as you can. Nobody ever died from pleasure.
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.

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

He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.
I don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is a language I don't understand.
I have been through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.
I must create a system, or be enslaved by another man's.
The engine died and then the doors swung open.
What children take from us, they give?We become people who feel more deeply, question more deeply, hurt more deeply, and love more deeply.
The 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 Great Barrier Reef on the coast of Queensland is a garden under the sea.

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.
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 true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
An idea is salvation by imagination.
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.
Temptation rarely comes in working hours. It is in their leisure time that men are made or marred.
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Women comprise 54 percent of contemporary Russian society. However, the number of women taking part in the country's political, economic and civic life shows that women are restricted in the spheres of politics and government.

I don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is a language I don't understand.
It is never too late to give up our prejudices.
The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.
Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.
It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.
Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life.
Vegetarianism is harmless enough, though it is apt to fill a man with wind and self-righteousness.

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Seize opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind.

We've got to get my friend to a hospital --"
My wish is to ride the tempest, tame the waves, kill the sharks. I will not resign myself...
Anger is never without Reason, but seldom with a good One.
People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.
After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.
Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality.
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.

Time is that quality of nature which keeps events from happening all at once. Lately it doesn't seem to be working.

Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch.
The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.
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.
Good breeding consists of concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.

I love every corner and every thing in my flat.

Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves.
Money frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy.
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
I was sick of cars driving right past me.
Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
You couldn't even prove the White House staff sane beyond a reasonable doubt.

I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.

So little time and so little to do.
Each body has its art...
It's a dangerous business going out your front door.
Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy.
In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from.
We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.
If you really do put a small value upon yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price.

Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.

Be thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till all commend.
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.
A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money.
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.
I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.
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.
I stumbled some, then a hand pushed my head down and I was inside the Hummer.

TV is chewing gum for the eyes.

Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
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.
It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.
A poem is no place for an idea.
The charity that hastens to proclaim its good deeds, ceases to be charity, and is only pride and ostentation.
If you scatter thorns, don't go barefoot.

Terrorists killed a lot fewer people than bathroom falls and accidental electrocutions.

I hope that when I die, people say about me, 'Boy, that guy sure owed me a lot of money.'
Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far.
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.
It's never just a game when you're winning.
I don't generally feel anything until noon; then it's time for my nap.
Where so many hours have been spent in convincing myself that I am right, is there not some reason to fear I may be wrong?
I think it is good that books still exist, but they do make me sleepy.

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

Life engenders life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.
My home is not a place, it is people.
Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain.
Order is not pressure which is imposed on society from without, but an equilibrium which is set up from within.
Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.
I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
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.

? Recurring alcohol-related legal problems, such as being arrested for driving under the influence of alcohol or for physically hurting someone while drunk;

Paradise is exactly like where you are right now... only much, much better.
Hollywood is a place where they place you under contract instead of under observation.
Sooner or later, we've got to work at it, no matter how many other careers we've had or wanted.
The more freedom we enjoy, the greater the responsibility we bear, toward others as well as ourselves.
Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.
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.
Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.

petak, 11.06.2010.

It is not enough to aim; you must hit.

Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment.
When you want to believe in something, you also have to believe in everything that's necessary for believing in it.
Liberals are very broadminded: they are always willing to give careful consideration to both sides of the same side.
Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up.
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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.
Now is the time for all good men to come to.