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petak, 23.07.2010.

There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.

No one goes there nowadays, it's too crowded.
I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.
One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.
Feet, why do I need them if I have wings to fly?
Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves.
I looked up and saw a bunch of military-looking guys in coveralls, holding big, bulky rifles and wearing hooded gas masks with tinted face-plates.
You never find yourself until you face the truth.

This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer.

Seize opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind.
A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a man of wit, and a pebble in the hand of a fool.
When I was a kid my parents moved a lot, but I always found them.
History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind.
Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards.
We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.
Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality.

But risk is not destiny. Just because alcoholism tends to run in families doesn't mean that a child of an alcoholic parent will automatically develop alcoholism.

It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.
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.
You should not live one way in private, another in public.
When I was a kid my parents moved a lot, but I always found them.
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.
Doubt 'til thou canst doubt no more...doubt is thought and thought is life. Systems which end doubt are devices for drugging thought.
You freeze where you are, time stops, and your heart thunders in your ears.

Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.

So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.
Part of being creative is learning how to protect your freedom. That includes freedom from avarice.
I feel about airplanes the way I feel about diets. It seems to me they are wonderful things for other people to go on.
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.
A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
Now is the time for all good men to come to.
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.

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

We cannot deny the facts of nature, but we should certainly try to improve on them.
Beware the pull on your heartstrings -- it's often the pursestrings that are actually being reached for.
All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance.
For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success. Talent is only a starting point in this business. You've got to keep on working that talent. Someday I'll reach for it and it won't be there.
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.
A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money.

Also in summer many people leave their cities and spend much time in the country or at the seaside.

Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.
I don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is a language I don't understand.
The strongest possible piece of advice I would give any young woman is: Don't screw around, and don't smoke.
A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.
Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.
I stand in awe of my body.
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.

Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.

...happiness gives us the energy which is the basis of health.
When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest.
Sometimes love will pick you up by the short hairs...and jerk the heck out of you.
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 crowd gives the leader new strength.
You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are; but you must approach each man by the right door.
I was the kid next door's imaginary friend.

Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.

Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
I was as scared as I'd ever been. There was screaming everywhere now, and more bodies on the floor, and the press from behind was as relentless as a bulldozer. It was all I could do to keep on my feet.
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.
Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.
In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from.
Sorrow was like the wind. It came in gusts.
All programmers are playwrights and all computers are lousy actors.

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

We play the hands of cards life gives us. And the worst hands can make us the best players.
The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too.
Do not envy a sinner; you don't know what disaster awaits him.
Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anyone else.
The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility.
Never part without loving words to think of during your absence. It may be that you will not meet again in life.
The next time a car appeared down Market Street, I stepped right out into the road, waving my arms over my head, shouting.

srijeda, 21.07.2010.

Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.

Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
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.
Truly great madness cannot be achieved without significant intelligence.
When you close your doors, and make darkness within, remember never to say that you are alone, for you are not alone; nay, God is within, and your genius is within. And what need have they of light to see what you are doing?
I'm going to stay in show business until I'm the last one left.
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.
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.

Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.

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.
Feeling grateful to or appreciative of someone or something in your life actually attracts more of the things that you appreciate and value into your life.
In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.
Vegetarianism is harmless enough, though it is apt to fill a man with wind and self-righteousness.
I don't believe in intuition. When you get sudden flashes of perception, it is just the brain working faster than usual. But you've been getting ready to know it for a long time, and when it comes, you feel you've known it always.
You cannot make a man by standing a sheep on its hind legs. But by standing a flock of sheep in that position you can make a crowd of men.
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.

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

Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch.
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 coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco.
He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.
The undertaking of a new action brings new strength.
It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.
There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.

Each passenger of more than 2 years of age has a free luggage allowance.

Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousand of miles and all the years you have lived.
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.
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.
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.
Shake off all the fears of servile prejudices, under which weak minds are servilely crouched. Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call on her tribunal for every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear.
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.
Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.

People fail forward to success.

Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself...True happiness is born of self-reliance.
Why do writers write? Because it isn't there.
The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.
The toughest question has always been, "How do you get your ideas?" How do you answer that? It's like asking runners how they run, or singers how they sing. They just do it!
The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.
I'd never looked down the barrel of a gun before, but everything you've heard about the experience is true.
The only difference between a rut and a grave... is in their dimensions.

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.

The hands behind me gave me another shove.
Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.
Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
We think in generalities, but we live in detail.
Nothing is impossible. Some things are just less likely than others.
Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.
Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.

Reveal not every secret you have to a friend, for how can you tell but that friend may hereafter become an enemy. And bring not all mischief you are able to upon an enemy, for he may one day become your friend.

Best wide-angle lens? Two steps backward. Look for the 'ah-ha'.
There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.
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 wanted to flag you down because my friend was bleeding. Someone stabbed him."
The habit of giving only enhances the desire to give.
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
The better part of valor is discretion, in the which better part I have saved my life.

This anthill existence would require that everyone exist only on a diet of grain, cultivation all arable land, and mining much of the earth's crust of a depth of 1.6 kilometers (1 mile).

A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down.
The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.
You 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?
Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others.
No one goes there nowadays, it's too crowded.
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.
Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.

Never before in the history of the world have businessmen traveled so much as they do today.

When I was a kid my parents moved a lot, but I always found them.
Most of the basic truths of life sound absurd at first hearing.
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
Depend not on fortune, but on conduct.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate.
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.

utorak, 20.07.2010.

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'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters.
I have always felt that a politician is to be judged by the animosities he excites among his opponents.
Equal opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent.
Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.
You create your opportunities by asking for them.
Someone's boring me. I think it's me.
The summer night is like a perfection of thought.

Normal is not something to aspire to, it's something to get away from.

Sometimes love will pick you up by the short hairs...and jerk the heck out of you.
The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all of your time.
Hope is tomorrow's veneer over today's disappointment.
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.
We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.
A minute's success pays the failure of years.
If you don't know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else.

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

We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.
We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe.
I like to play blackjack. I'm not addicted to gambling, I'm addicted to sitting in a semi-circle.
When I was a kid my parents moved a lot, but I always found them.
The best of us must sometimes eat our words.
All the world's a cage.
I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.

? Failure to fulfill major work, school, or home responsibilities;

I hope that when I die, people say about me, 'Boy, that guy sure owed me a lot of money.'
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth that it prevents you from achieving.
Intimacy is being seen and known as the person you truly are.
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.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.
You freeze where you are, time stops, and your heart thunders in your ears.

Summer is the hottest season of the year and days are longer than in winter.

He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.
Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today.
Rest is the sweet sauce of labor.
The art of dining well is no slight art, the pleasure not a slight pleasure.
What's another word for Thesaurus?
If you think taking care of yourself is selfish, change your mind. If you don't, you're simply ducking your responsibilities.
They can conquer who believe they can.

The freedom of all is essential to my freedom.

Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality.
Our patience will achieve more than our force.
In real life, unlike in Shakespeare, the sweetness of the rose depends upon the name it bears. Things are not only what they are. They are, in very important respects, what they seem to be.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.
The crux... is that the vast majority of the mass of the universe seems to be missing.
College isn't the place to go for ideas.

Truly great madness cannot be achieved without significant intelligence.

When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.
Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that's where you renew your springs that never dry up.
When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.
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.
If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.
We are made to persist. That's how we find out who we are.

It might be useful for travelling businessmen and tourists to know that tailor shops, shoe repair shops and laundry, dry cleaning services are available for guests.

Rest is the sweet sauce of labor.
My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists.
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.
You can't deny laughter. When it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.
They can conquer who believe they can.
He who boasts of his ancestry is praising the deeds of another.
Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.

Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.

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?
When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.
The older I grow, the less important the comma becomes. Let the reader catch his own breath.
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
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.
Assuming either the Left Wing or the Right Wing gained control of the country, it would probably fly around in circles.
Experience is a good teacher, but she send in terrific bills.

In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.

I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value.
Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.
Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn't block traffic.
Skiing combines outdoor fun with knocking down trees with your face.
I felt the doors open near me, and then saw a confusion of booted feet moving close by.
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 same holds true for Mexico City and 600 cities of the former Soviet Union.

I hope that when I die, people say about me, 'Boy, that guy sure owed me a lot of money.'
Write a wise saying and your name will live forever.
Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.
Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves.
To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.
Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.
Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.

I will never forget my first visit to the Bolshoy Theatre.

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.
Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.
Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid.
After the last of 16 mounting screws has been removed from an access cover, it will be discovered that the wrong access cover has been removed.
I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.
The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.

Britain was originally a land of vast forests.

Somebody has to do something, and it's just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.
I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.
Anger is never without Reason, but seldom with a good One.
I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.
I'm going to stay in show business until I'm the last one left.
If you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome; if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent; if you believe the military, nothing is safe.
It had only one fault. It was kind of lousy.

Choosing a comfortable hotel to stay at is, therefore, a matter of some importance.

The car rocked back and forth and tipped uphill.
There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth.
Good soldiers never pass up a chance to eat or sleep. They never know how much they'll be called on to do before the next chance.
The strongest possible piece of advice I would give any young woman is: Don't screw around, and don't smoke.
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.
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.
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.

A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.

Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.
Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid.
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.
None are so busy as the fool and knave.
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
Having a holiday weekend without a family member felt like putting on a sweater that had an extra arm.

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

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.
On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily lying down.
Turn the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.
Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
Nothing can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.

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

Nothing is impossible. Some things are just less likely than others.
He attacked everything in life with a mix of extrordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which was which.
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.
Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality.
From the moment I picked up your book until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.
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.
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.

We learn something every day, and lots of times it's that what we learned the day before was wrong.

I barely had time to register them before those rifles were pointed at me.
There?s so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets?
If my mental map was right, we were heading down to Fisherman's Wharf.
I don't generally feel anything until noon; then it's time for my nap.
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 another word for Thesaurus?
The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.

Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.

Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
You know what's interesting about Washington? It's the kind of place where second-guessing has become second nature.
The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.
He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.
If you think taking care of yourself is selfish, change your mind. If you don't, you're simply ducking your responsibilities.
I'm going to stay in show business until I'm the last one left.
Keep cool and you command everybody.

I usually go to the cinema for the morning or day shows.

In America, they want you to accomplish these great feats, to pull off these David Copperfield-type stunts. You want me to be great, but you don't ever want me to say I'm great?
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.
In the absences of a decent time machine, fiction remains the most sturdy vehicle for visiting other eras.
It's a dangerous business going out your front door.
At my lemonade stand I used to give the first glass away free and charge five dollars for the second glass. The refill contained the antidote.
When they discover the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to discover they are not it.
Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone.

Do you want to be an organizer of other people's activities?

Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke.
Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing 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.
I was the kid next door's imaginary friend.
There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth.

The Past is to be respected and acknoledged, but not to be worshiped. It is our future in which we will find our greatness.

What children take from us, they give?We become people who feel more deeply, question more deeply, hurt more deeply, and love more deeply.
Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.
The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too.
If you really do put a small value upon yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price.
Who were these clowns?
You know what's interesting about Washington? It's the kind of place where second-guessing has become second nature.
The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco.

It's the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion.

It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.
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.
Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.
Without the capacity to provide its own information, the mind drifts into randomness.
Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.
Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.

Newspapermen learn to call a murderer 'an alleged murderer' and the King of England 'the alleged King of England' to avoid libel suits.

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.
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.
If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.
Obscurity is a good thing. You can fail in obscurity. It removes the fear of failure.
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
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.
Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.

I phoned my dad to tell him I had stopped smoking. He called me a quitter.

A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money.
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
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 adds to the joy and glory of the climb.
Ask a deeply religious Christian if he?d rather live next to a bearded Muslim that may or may not be plotting a terror attack, or an atheist that may or may not show him how to set up a wireless network in his house. On the scale of prejudice, atheists don?t seem so bad lately.
I have lost friends, some by death... others through sheer inability to cross the street.
Do something every day that you don't want to do; this is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.
Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Treatment may include detoxification (the process of safely getting alcohol out of one's system); taking doctor-prescribed medications, such as disulfiram or naltrexone, to help prevent a return to drinking once drinking has stopped; and individual and/o

Darryl wasn't in good shape -- he was white-faced and panting.
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 gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.
When you make a mistake, don't look back at it long. Take the reason of the thing into your mind and then look forward. Mistakes are lessons of wisdom. The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.
In an industrial society which confuses work and productivity, the necessity of producing has always been an enemy of the desire to create.
On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily lying down.
Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.

At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.

Students achieving Oneness will move on to Twoness.
My wish is to ride the tempest, tame the waves, kill the sharks. I will not resign myself...
It is impossible to walk rapidly and be unhappy.
Be sincere; be brief; be seated.
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.
It's important to begin a search on a full stomach.
They weren't wearing insignia.

ponedjeljak, 19.07.2010.

History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.

We rarely think people have good sense unless they agree with us.
Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper.
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.
It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
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?
Keep cool and you command everybody.

When someone does something good, applaud! You will make two people happy.

The creative is the place where no one else has ever been. You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover will be yourself.
Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid.
I had no idea how much of this was making it through the muffling bag.
Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.
The summer night is like a perfection of thought.
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 never think of the future - it comes soon enough.

My mother says that books help us in self-education.

Let not the sands of time get in your lunch.
Man is only miserable so far as he thinks himself so.
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.
We don't get offered crises, they arrive.
I was sick of cars driving right past me.
Speak when you are angry--and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret.
There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.

In 1980, the conservative Ronald Reagan, a former supporter of Barry Goldwater, regained the presidency for the Republicans and reversed long-standing political trends by instituting a supply-side economic program of budget and tax cuts.

At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.
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.
I'm moving, but don't worry! Someone once told me we're all on the same planet, so I'll be okay!
I don't believe in intuition. When you get sudden flashes of perception, it is just the brain working faster than usual. But you've been getting ready to know it for a long time, and when it comes, you feel you've known it always.
Sorrow was like the wind. It came in gusts.
There are no wise few. Every aristocracy that has ever existed has behaved, in all essential points, exactly like a small mob.
You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play.

Try to put your happiness before anyone else's, because you may never have done so in your entire life, if you really think about it, if you are really honest with yourself.

Never rely on the glory of the morning nor the smiles of your mother-in-law.
Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.
In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.
It's so much easier to write a resume than to craft a spirit.
True friends are those who really know you but love you anyway.
Life is consciousness.
Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.

The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.

We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
It felt like they used a baton or something -- it was harder than anyone had ever hit me in the head before.
A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.
A joke's a very serious thing.
If you refuse to be made straight when you are green, you will not be made straight when you are dry.
You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
I've never quite believed that one chance is all I get.

This novel was published at the beginning of the 20th century.

The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.
My home is not a place, it is people.
There were millions of ways that the world could kill me.
There are a terrible lot of lies going around the world, and the worst of it is half of them are true.
We may not imagine how our lives could be more frustrating and complex--but Congress can.
Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.
You could get on a boat there, get away. That fit with the terrorism hypothesis.

The traditional english dinner on cristmas is turkey and pudding.

Time is that quality of nature which keeps events from happening all at once. Lately it doesn't seem to be working.
Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.
You can only cure retail but you can prevent .
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
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.
For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top .

Euclid then replied, "There is no royal road to geometry," and sent one of the most powerful kings of his time off to study.

If men could only know each other, they would neither idolize nor hate.
Whatever you fear most has no power - it is your fear that has the power.
When we got into office, the thing that surprised me the most was that things were as bad as we'd been saying they were.
I don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is a language I don't understand.
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.
Good taste is the enemy of comedy.
The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too.

She wasn't a professional and had never been one.

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.
My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists.
If you refuse to be made straight when you are green, you will not be made straight when you are dry.
The best of us must sometimes eat our words.
People fail forward to success.
My wish is to ride the tempest, tame the waves, kill the sharks. I will not resign myself...
Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.

Know, first, who you are; and then adorn yourself accordingly.

You create your opportunities by asking for them.
History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.
The better part of valor is discretion, in the which better part I have saved my life.
This world is given as the prize for the men in earnest; and that which is true of this world, is truer still of the world to come.
Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.
The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt.
I kept talking. "Listen -- this is some kind of misunderstanding.

Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit.

I cried out and my own voice was muffled by the hood.
Write a wise saying and your name will live forever.
When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.
Hollywood is a place where they place you under contract instead of under observation.
You can only cure retail but you can prevent .
Seize opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind.
I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.

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

A doctor saves lives -- It's up to people to create lives that are worth saving.
Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.
Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.
Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
I have the worst memory ever so no matter who comes up to me - they're just, like, 'I can't believe you don't remember me!" I'm like, 'Oh Dad I'm sorry!'
Vegetarianism is harmless enough, though it is apt to fill a man with wind and self-righteousness.
The older I grow, the less important the comma becomes. Let the reader catch his own breath.

The air above the forest contains millions of microscopic drops of eucalyptus oil.

I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.
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.
Above all things, never be afraid. The enemy who forces you to retreat is himself afraid of you at that very moment.
Humor is also a way of saying something serious.
Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.
You couldn't even prove the White House staff sane beyond a reasonable doubt.
My father hated radio and could not wait for television to be invented so he could hate that too.

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 moment later, I caught my breath, but I didn't say anything.
Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.
I was gratified to be able to answer promptly. I said I don't know.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
Fig Newton: The force required to accelerate a fig 39.37 inches per sec.
I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.
You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.

The river brings greenness and life to the south-east corner. In the early of the Australian history, the Murrey River was South Australia?s main road.

Bear in mind that you should conduct yourself in life as at a feast.
Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.
Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.
Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less.
Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.
The mellow sweetness of pumpkin pie off a prison spoon is something you will never forget.
By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd be grown up.

Women have less access to retraining programs than men, while women entrepreneurs are a rarity.

He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.
Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.
Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.
I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.
We've got to get my friend to a hospital --"
There is no stigma attached to recognizing a bad decision in time to install a better one.

Her room is very cosy, though it isn't very large.

Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn whatever state I am in, therin to be content
The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth that it prevents you from achieving.
Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.
Summer afternoon - Summer afternoon... the two most beautiful words in the English language.
Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch.
I'm moving, but don't worry! Someone once told me we're all on the same planet, so I'll be okay!
Order is not pressure which is imposed on society from without, but an equilibrium which is set up from within.

Do not forget your personal effects when leaving the plane.

Memory feeds imagination.
I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.
The two symbols of the Republican Party: an elephant, and a big fat white guy who is threatened by change.
I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.
My father hated radio and could not wait for television to be invented so he could hate that too.

I'm glad I didn't have to fight in any war. I'm glad I didn't have to pick up a gun. I'm glad I didn't get killed or kill somebody. I hope my kids enjoy the same lack of manhood.

When you go into court you are putting your fate into the hands of twelve people who weren't smart enough to get out of jury duty.
Is love supposed to last throughout all time, or is it like trains changing at random stops. If I loved her, how could I leave her? If I felt that way then, how come I don't feel anything now?
A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms.
There is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income.
What makes the engine go? Desire, desire, desire.
The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it.
My friend is one... who take me for what I am.

nedjelja, 18.07.2010.

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.

The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but how to get old ones out. Every mind is a building filled with archaic furniture. Clean out a corner of your mind and creativity will instantly fill it.
Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.
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.
A minute's success pays the failure of years.
You can learn as much - or more - from one glance at a private space as you can from hours of exposure to a public face.
Go often to the house of thy friend; for weeds soon choke up the unused path.
The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.

People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.

Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke.
Censorship, like charity, should begin at home; but, unlike charity, it should end there.
Experience is a good teacher, but she send in terrific bills.
Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.
Dance is the hidden language of the soul.
Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.
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 Mediterranean is already nearly dead; the North Sea is following.

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.
It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.
It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.
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?
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.
Joy is prayer - Joy is strength - Joy is love - Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
When you go into court you are putting your fate into the hands of twelve people who weren't smart enough to get out of jury duty.

College isn't the place to go for ideas.

I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
I feel very strongly that change is good because it stirs up the system.
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 best way out is always through.
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.
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.

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe.
Up ahead, I saw someone, a middle-aged lady in a hippie dress, falter and fall.
It is better to wear out than to rust out.
Be honorable yourself if you wish to associate with honorable people.
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 adds to the joy and glory of the climb.
What makes the engine go? Desire, desire, desire.
Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others.

Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn't block traffic.

Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
I'd never looked down the barrel of a gun before, but everything you've heard about the experience is true.
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.
The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
It is wonderful how quickly you get used to things, even the most astonishing.
You must not think me necessarily foolish because I am facetious, nor will I consider you necessarily wise because you are grave.
By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd be grown up.

Do you want to develop new ideas and initiate changes.

The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star.
Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality... the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.
Many people weigh the guilt they will feel against the pleasure of the forbidden action they want to take.
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
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.
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.
Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth?Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.

I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.

I must create a system, or be enslaved by another man's.
Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.
You can have it all. You just can't have it all at once.
History is more or less bunk.
Van's sweater was soaked in blood.
A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top .
At my lemonade stand I used to give the first glass away free and charge five dollars for the second glass. The refill contained the antidote.

Now there are many books in the shops.

The first vehicle that screamed past -- an ambulance -- didn't even slow down.
Do something every day that you don't want to do; this is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.
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.
Seize opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind.
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
You couldn't even prove the White House staff sane beyond a reasonable doubt.
Some people make headlines while others make history.

petak, 16.07.2010.

It?s like your batteries get low, and you need to charge them on someone else?s story.

Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law?
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.
Sorrow was like the wind. It came in gusts.
Sometimes love will pick you up by the short hairs...and jerk the heck out of you.
The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success. Talent is only a starting point in this business. You've got to keep on working that talent. Someday I'll reach for it and it won't be there.
The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is inefficiency. An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty.
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.

I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.
Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.
So quick and so fiercely I barely had time to gasp before it was locked on me.
The first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved without courting love. To be loved without 'playing up' to anyone - even to himself.
In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.
Love truth, and pardon error.
It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.

The scientific method of analyzing data and establishing hypotheses, a vital concomitant of academic freedom, was initiated during the Enlightenment , mainly by scholars outside university life such as Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, and Voltaire.

It is hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head.
There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty... But I am too busy thinking about myself.
People will buy anything that is one to a customer.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
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.

The book is a faithful and undemanding friend.

Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.
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.
When you make a mistake, don't look back at it long. Take the reason of the thing into your mind and then look forward. Mistakes are lessons of wisdom. The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.
A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down.
Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.
I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.
Vegetarianism is harmless enough, though it is apt to fill a man with wind and self-righteousness.

They were successful in the elections of 1858 and passed over their better-known leaders to nominate Abraham Lincoln in 1860.

My home is not a place, it is people.
The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.
Maybe they were terrorists!
It really doesn't matter if the person who hurt you deserves to be forgiven. Forgiveness is a gift you give yourself. You have things to do and you want to move on.
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.
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.'
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.

Isolationists held the upper hand in the party before World War II, and in 1940 two Republicans, Henry L.

History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind.
There are two types of people--those who come into a room and say, 'Well, here I am!' and those who come in and say, 'Ah, there you are.'
The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
Doubt 'til thou canst doubt no more...doubt is thought and thought is life. Systems which end doubt are devices for drugging thought.
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.
At my lemonade stand I used to give the first glass away free and charge five dollars for the second glass. The refill contained the antidote.
Be honorable yourself if you wish to associate with honorable people.

Talking with you is sort of the conversational equivalent of an out of body experience.

If there's one thing I know it's God does love a good joke.
Maybe the most any of us can expect of ourselves isn't perfection but progress.
One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.
Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.
If you refuse to be made straight when you are green, you will not be made straight when you are dry.
Now is the time for all good men to come to.
Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.

Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.

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.
Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.
The car rocked back and forth and tipped uphill.
He who is not very strong in memory should not meddle with lying.
I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for; perfection is God's business.
I was gratified to be able to answer promptly. I said I don't know.
It is impossible to walk rapidly and be unhappy.

You can learn many things from books.

You don't get anything clean without getting something else dirty.
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.
Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
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.
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.
Memory feeds imagination.
Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others.

? Examine the benefits of stopping an unhealthy drinking pattern.

Now is the time for all good men to come to.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives.
My father hated radio and could not wait for television to be invented so he could hate that too.
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.
Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality.
Hollywood is a place where they place you under contract instead of under observation.

četvrtak, 15.07.2010.

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

God creates men, but they choose each other.
There are a terrible lot of lies going around the world, and the worst of it is half of them are true.
I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
Don't mace him!" I shouted over the din. "You'll get us all too.
A chess genius is a human being who focuses vast, little-understood mental gifts and labors on an ultimately trivial human enterprise.
Liberals are very broadminded: they are always willing to give careful consideration to both sides of the same side.
Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.

In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the next meal would come from.

All things are difficult before they are easy.
Have patience awhile; slanders are not long-lived. Truth is the child of time; erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee.
Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.
One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.
It is wonderful how quickly you get used to things, even the most astonishing.
If the only prayer you ever say in your whole life is "thank you," that would suffice.
The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said.

It was difficult to write a book with a pen.

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.
It was a military-looking Jeep, like an armored Hummer, only it didn't have any military insignia on it.
I'd learned my lesson.
Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose.
But be, as you have been, my happiness...
O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.
The older I grow, the less important the comma becomes. Let the reader catch his own breath.

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

Go often to the house of thy friend; for weeds soon choke up the unused path.
I don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is a language I don't understand.
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
When you have got an elephant by the hind leg, and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.
Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.
Without the capacity to provide its own information, the mind drifts into randomness.

Also they think that it is polite to leave a little food on the plate at the end of a meal.

Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.
Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less.
It had only one fault. It was kind of lousy.
I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters.
Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.
Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.
You know what's interesting about Washington? It's the kind of place where second-guessing has become second nature.

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 realizin

Vigorous writing is concise.
While we have the gift of life, it seems to me that only tragedy is to allow part of us to die - whether it is our spirit, our creativity, or our glorious uniqueness.
Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done.
Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose.
There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
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.

I cried out and my own voice was muffled by the hood.

There is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income.
My home is not a place, it is people.
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.
Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.
You never know how a horse will pull until you hook him up to a heavy load.
What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say.
If your parents never had children, chances are you won't, either.

Today there are a lot of different restaurants and cafes where you can eat delicious and not really expensive food.

There is surely a piece of divinity in us, something that was before the elements, and owes no homage unto the sun.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level.
The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
Paradise is exactly like where you are right now... only much, much better.
I feel very strongly that change is good because it stirs up the system.
There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.

This new knowledge will help identify individuals at high risk for alcoholism and also will pave the way for the development of new treatments for alcohol-related problems.

My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists.
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
I got up the third step and reached for the fourth, but it wasn't there.
Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less.
Be careful that victories do not carry the seed of future defeats.
I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
The Past is to be respected and acknoledged, but not to be worshiped. It is our future in which we will find our greatness.

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

Typos are very important to all written form. It gives the reader something to look for so they aren't distracted by the total lack of content in your writing.
The strongest possible piece of advice I would give any young woman is: Don't screw around, and don't smoke.
The next time a car appeared down Market Street, I stepped right out into the road, waving my arms over my head, shouting.
Liberals are very broadminded: they are always willing to give careful consideration to both sides of the same side.
Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
I believe that every now and then it is important to laugh at ourselves and take a lighter approach to our life conditions.
We are able to laugh when we achieve detachment, if only for a moment.

Flats can be of different sizes: one-roomed, two-roomed, three-roomed, so one can choose a flat he/she likes.

You freeze where you are, time stops, and your heart thunders in your ears.
At my lemonade stand I used to give the first glass away free and charge five dollars for the second glass. The refill contained the antidote.
In real life, unlike in Shakespeare, the sweetness of the rose depends upon the name it bears. Things are not only what they are. They are, in very important respects, what they seem to be.
Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.
It is only possible to live happily ever after on a day-to-day basis.
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.
Things won are done; joy's soul lies in the doing.

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

The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
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.'
Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.
I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.
The first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved without courting love. To be loved without 'playing up' to anyone - even to himself.
The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value.
When you want to believe in something, you also have to believe in everything that's necessary for believing in it.

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

Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that you live, if you do.
Fresh clean sheets are one of life's small joys.
The toughest question has always been, "How do you get your ideas?" How do you answer that? It's like asking runners how they run, or singers how they sing. They just do it!
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.
Normal is not something to aspire to, it's something to get away from.
As long as you derive inner help and comfort from anything, keep it.
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.

It is also very different from the other states.

I gathered we were headed over Nob Hill, and from the angle, it seemed we were taking one of the steeper routes.
I have the worst memory ever so no matter who comes up to me - they're just, like, 'I can't believe you don't remember me!" I'm like, 'Oh Dad I'm sorry!'
The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too.
We rocked to a stop still on a downslope.
I got up the third step and reached for the fourth, but it wasn't there.
I have always felt that a politician is to be judged by the animosities he excites among his opponents.
Maybe the most any of us can expect of ourselves isn't perfection but progress.

The fireplaces are often used. but the coal is not used as it's very expensive.

A neurosis is a secret that you don't know you are keeping.
If we fall, we don't need self-recrimination or blame or anger - we need a reawakening of our intention and a willingness to recommit, to be whole-hearted once again.
By prizing heartfulness above faultlessness, we may reap more from our effort because we're more likely to be changed by it.
What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?
Never be a cynic, even a gentle one. Never help out a sneer, even at the devil.
Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.
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.

People prefer to stay at home and to watch TV or video.

Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.
My eyes swam and watered and I literally couldn't breathe through the pain.
Maybe they were terrorists!
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
Electricity is actually made up of extremely tiny particles called electrons, that you cannot see with the naked eye unless you have been drinking.
If we fall, we don't need self-recrimination or blame or anger - we need a reawakening of our intention and a willingness to recommit, to be whole-hearted once again.
Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.

So quick and so fiercely I barely had time to gasp before it was locked on me.

Keep true to the dreams of thy youth.
I never vote for anyone; I always vote against.
Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.
Never be a cynic, even a gentle one. Never help out a sneer, even at the devil.
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.
The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success. Talent is only a starting point in this business. You've got to keep on working that talent. Someday I'll reach for it and it won't be there.
Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to be caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self.

Most airlines have at least 2 classes of travel: first class and economy class which is cheaper.

Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.
I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.
He was one of those men who think that the world can be saved by writing a pamphlet.
Now we were descending just as steeply.
When they discover the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to discover they are not it.
Know, first, who you are; and then adorn yourself accordingly.
What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?

Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.

When everyone is against you, it means that you are absolutely wrong-- or absolutely right.
All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.
More bodies were roughly shoved in beside me.
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.'
The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
The next time a car appeared down Market Street, I stepped right out into the road, waving my arms over my head, shouting.
I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.

Only a half of million people live in Tasmania, and a large part of the island is still covered with wild, beautiful wild forests.

On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily lying down.
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?
A neurosis is a secret that you don't know you are keeping.
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.
I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty... But I am too busy thinking about myself.
A few seconds later, I tripped over a steel staircase, bashing my shins.
The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.

Currently, nearly 30 million Russians - abuse alcohol or are alcoholic.

History is more or less bunk.
Up ahead, I saw someone, a middle-aged lady in a hippie dress, falter and fall.
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 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.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
It's wonderful what we can do if we're always doing.
If it weren't for baseball, many kids wouldn't know what a millionaire looked like.

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

Hope is tomorrow's veneer over today's disappointment.
You create your opportunities by asking for them.
You cannot make a man by standing a sheep on its hind legs. But by standing a flock of sheep in that position you can make a crowd of men.
Each individual woman's body demands to be accepted on its own terms.
It was a military-looking Jeep, like an armored Hummer, only it didn't have any military insignia on it.
There is an applause superior to that of the multitudes: one's own.
Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.

The conservatives, skillfully guided by national chairman Marcus A. Hanna , won with William McKinley in 1896 and 1900, and under such leaders as Nelson W. Aldrich , Thomas B. Reed , Joseph G. Cannon , Thomas C. Platt , and Matthew S. Quay , the party pro

My wish is to ride the tempest, tame the waves, kill the sharks. I will not resign myself...
From the moment I picked up your book until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.
A hobby a day keeps the doldrums away.
The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.
I believe that every now and then it is important to laugh at ourselves and take a lighter approach to our life conditions.
We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.

Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
Never rely on the glory of the morning nor the smiles of your mother-in-law.
Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge.
It is easier to exclude harmful passions than to rule them, and to deny them admittance than to control them after they have been admitted.
Typos are very important to all written form. It gives the reader something to look for so they aren't distracted by the total lack of content in your writing.
Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.
Even the fear of death is nothing compared to the fear of not having lived authentically and fully.

By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd be grown up.

It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.
You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.
Beware the pull on your heartstrings -- it's often the pursestrings that are actually being reached for.
A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a man of wit, and a pebble in the hand of a fool.
I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
If it weren't for baseball, many kids wouldn't know what a millionaire looked like.
As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.

The doctor came, removed his coat and put on his white gown.

Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life.
Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn't block traffic.
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
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.
I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.
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.
A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down.

? Have people Annoyed you by criticizing your drinking?

O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.
Now we were descending just as steeply.
Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves.
Things won are done; joy's soul lies in the doing.
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
Rest is the sweet sauce of labor.
The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.

srijeda, 14.07.2010.

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

I cried out and my own voice was muffled by the hood.
Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives.
Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law?
A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnecessary.
Nobody is ever met at the airport when beginning a new adventure. It's just not done.
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.
Keep your broken arm inside your sleeve.

Researchers found that most managers and supervisors in one large manufacturing plant had little knowledge of the company's alcohol policy.

Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.
Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives.
If it weren't for baseball, many kids wouldn't know what a millionaire looked like.
More movement, and the sense of bodies being shackled in alongside of me.
Go often to the house of thy friend; for weeds soon choke up the unused path.
Shake off all the fears of servile prejudices, under which weak minds are servilely crouched. Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call on her tribunal for every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear.
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few; and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.

He can be described as a funny little man taken by many readers as a comic.

Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day.
Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today.
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.
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.
The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.
He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few; and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.

The better part of valor is discretion, in the which better part I have saved my life.

Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain.
The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
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 hope that when I die, people say about me, 'Boy, that guy sure owed me a lot of money.'
I opened my mouth, then shut it, then, very slowly, I held my hands up in front of me.
Censorship, like charity, should begin at home; but, unlike charity, it should end there.
We cannot destroy kindred: Our chains stretch a little sometimes, but they never break.

Limited work supervision, often a problem on evening shifts, has been associated with employee alcohol problems.

He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.
Refuse to be ill. Never tell people you are ill; never own it to yourself. Illness is one of those things which a man should resist on principle.
You couldn't even prove the White House staff sane beyond a reasonable doubt.
It's wonderful what we can do if we're always doing.
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.
Treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.
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.

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

Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain.
Nothing in the world can take the place of Persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan 'Press On' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.
Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
There is an applause superior to that of the multitudes: one's own.
Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, not swallowed.
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.
The faceless, eyeless armed man above me kept his gun very level.

Alcohol abuse differs from alcoholism in that it does not include an extremely strong craving for alcohol, loss of control, or physical dependence.

My father hated radio and could not wait for television to be invented so he could hate that too.
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
I am more and more convinced that our happiness or unhappiness depends more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
A moment later, I caught my breath, but I didn't say anything.
Never despair; but if you do, work on in despair.
I have lost friends, some by death... others through sheer inability to cross the street.

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

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.
It's wonderful what we can do if we're always doing.
Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that of another.
Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
Be a good listener. Your ears will never get you in trouble.
If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.

Like orchestras, the theatre companies usually play in rented theatres, but there are several theatres which have their own homes.

I stand in awe of my body.
Shake off all the fears of servile prejudices, under which weak minds are servilely crouched. Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call on her tribunal for every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear.
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.
Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.
Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.
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.
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.

Speak when you are angry--and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret.

If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody.
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.
The most beautiful adventures are not those we go to seek.
Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less.
It was enough to make a body ashamed of the human race.
Even the best of friends need time apart.
Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that of another.

Look at all the sentences which seem true and question them.

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.
Each individual woman's body demands to be accepted on its own terms.
Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
Our patience will achieve more than our force.
I was gratified to be able to answer promptly. I said I don't know.
Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.

Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives.

Refuse to be ill. Never tell people you are ill; never own it to yourself. Illness is one of those things which a man should resist on principle.
It is wonderful how quickly you get used to things, even the most astonishing.
Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousand of miles and all the years you have lived.
If you scatter thorns, don't go barefoot.
You cannot be mad at somebody who makes you laugh - it's as simple as that.
Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.
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.

Also it is very important for our health.

I have lost friends, some by death... others through sheer inability to cross the street.
Typos are very important to all written form. It gives the reader something to look for so they aren't distracted by the total lack of content in your writing.
When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.
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.
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 truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.
Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.

You can have it all. You just can't have it all at once.

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.
I barely had time to register them before those rifles were pointed at me.
Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.
A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money.
It had only one fault. It was kind of lousy.
He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.
Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.

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

In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.
How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!
We play the hands of cards life gives us. And the worst hands can make us the best players.
A smiling face is half the meal.
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
There are a terrible lot of lies going around the world, and the worst of it is half of them are true.
Most advances in science come when a person for one reason or another is forced to change fields.

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

The scornful nostril and the high head gather not the odors that lie on the track of truth.
Be sincere; be brief; be seated.
I don't think about risks much. I just do what I want to do. If you gotta go, you gotta go.
Humor is also a way of saying something serious.
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.
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'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.

To minorities, population regulation is sometimes seen as a form of genocide to keep their numbers and power from rising.

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.
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.
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.
Neither did the cop car that went past, nor the firetruck, nor the next three cop-cars.
Anyone who has gumption knows what it is, and anyone who hasn't can never know what it is. So there is no need of defining it.
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
It's important to begin a search on a full stomach.

As my parents are an engineeres they have made a great influence on my choice and I can say that this profession runs the family.

I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
I'm going to stay in show business until I'm the last one left.
Nobody is ever met at the airport when beginning a new adventure. It's just not done.
The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge.
You couldn't even prove the White House staff sane beyond a reasonable doubt.
The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.

utorak, 13.07.2010.

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.

Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousand of miles and all the years you have lived.
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.
Anything looked at closely becomes wonderful.
When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.
The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility.
Anyone who has gumption knows what it is, and anyone who hasn't can never know what it is. So there is no need of defining it.
One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.

The 44 countries with a high human suffering rate--all in Africa, Asia, and Latin America--also had an average annual population increase of 2.8%.

I felt the doors open near me, and then saw a confusion of booted feet moving close by.
Keep true to the dreams of thy youth.
You can have it all. You just can't have it all at once.
Newspapermen learn to call a murderer 'an alleged murderer' and the King of England 'the alleged King of England' to avoid libel suits.
Order is not pressure which is imposed on society from without, but an equilibrium which is set up from within.
The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.
Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.

To help them in this they got Guy Fawker, a soldier of fortune, who would do the actual work.

It's a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn't want to hear.
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.
There is an alchemy in sorrow. It can be transmuted into wisdom, which, if it does not bring joy, can yet bring happiness.
Sometimes love will pick you up by the short hairs...and jerk the heck out of you.
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.
I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty... But I am too busy thinking about myself.
Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.

Dance is the hidden language of the soul.

Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives.
He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.
Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less.
Things are only impossible until they're not.
Assuming either the Left Wing or the Right Wing gained control of the country, it would probably fly around in circles.
I think it is good that books still exist, but they do make me sleepy.
Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.

People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.

The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
I kept talking. "Listen -- this is some kind of misunderstanding.
Vegetarianism is harmless enough, though it is apt to fill a man with wind and self-righteousness.
Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality.
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.
In the right light, at the right time, everything is extraordinary.
Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.

Worrying about them always struck me as about as useful as worrying about getting hit by lightning.

We are always in search of the redeeming formula, the crystallizing thought.
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
We've got to get my friend to a hospital --"
For the most part, fear is nothing but an illusion. When you share it with someone else, it tends to disappear.
My mother loved children -- she would have given anything if I had been one.
Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present.
More movement, and the sense of bodies being shackled in alongside of me.

Extensive forests remain in eastern and northern Scotland and in south-eastern and western England.

Who were these clowns?
We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language.
If it weren't for baseball, many kids wouldn't know what a millionaire looked like.
I said to myself, I have things in my head that are not like what anyone has taught me - shapes and ideas so near to me - so natural to my way of being and thinking that it hasn't occurred to me to put them down. I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught.
When they discover the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to discover they are not it.
When everyone is against you, it means that you are absolutely wrong-- or absolutely right.
Speak when you are angry--and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret.

You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.

If you think taking care of yourself is selfish, change your mind. If you don't, you're simply ducking your responsibilities.
Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.
Why the hell would terrorists kidnap a bunch of high school students?
She screamed as she went down, and I saw her thrashing to get up, but she couldn't, the crowd's pressure was too strong.
I have the worst memory ever so no matter who comes up to me - they're just, like, 'I can't believe you don't remember me!" I'm like, 'Oh Dad I'm sorry!'
A rumor without a leg to stand on will get around some other way.
Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.

She is popular for ingenuity of plots, which are classical murder mysteries: marooned places and a well-mannered murderer.

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.
America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.
Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.
Intimacy is what makes a marriage, not a ceremony, not a piece of paper from the state.
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
...happiness gives us the energy which is the basis of health.
Play: Work that you enjoy doing for nothing.

At first, nobody wanted to live there because it was used as a prison where the British government would send British prisoners.

Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.
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.
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.
One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.
Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
Bear in mind that you should conduct yourself in life as at a feast.
You cannot make a man by standing a sheep on its hind legs. But by standing a flock of sheep in that position you can make a crowd of men.

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

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.
He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.
The best of us must sometimes eat our words.
By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd be grown up.
None are so busy as the fool and knave.
The only difference between a rut and a grave... is in their dimensions.
A man can do all things if he but wills them.

The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success. Talent is only a starting point in this business. You've got to keep on working that talent. Someday I'll reach for it and it won't be there.

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present.
The summer night is like a perfection of thought.
Some people make headlines while others make history.
There is an evil tendency underlying all our technology - the tendency to do what is reasonable even when it isn't any good.
I was as scared as I'd ever been. There was screaming everywhere now, and more bodies on the floor, and the press from behind was as relentless as a bulldozer. It was all I could do to keep on my feet.
Anyone who has gumption knows what it is, and anyone who hasn't can never know what it is. So there is no need of defining it.

From the moment I picked up your book until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.

A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top .
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.
Memory feeds imagination.
If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
The crowd gives the leader new strength.
Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.
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.

Best wide-angle lens? Two steps backward. Look for the 'ah-ha'.

Where facts are few, experts are many.
Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.
Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

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

A poem is no place for an idea.
Life is consciousness.
How we remember, what we remember and why we remember form the most personal map of our individuality.
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.
Laughter is supposed to be the best medicine, however, it should never be at the expense of someone?s feelings or ignoring truth.
We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language.
Sometimes love will pick you up by the short hairs...and jerk the heck out of you.

This new knowledge will help identify individuals at high risk for alcoholism and also will pave the way for the development of new treatments for alcohol-related problems.

One of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish had been left unsaid.
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.
What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty.
Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level.
You never find yourself until you face the truth.
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 felt the doors open near me, and then saw a confusion of booted feet moving close by.

The trick is to make sure you don't die waiting for prosperity to come.
I have the worst memory ever so no matter who comes up to me - they're just, like, 'I can't believe you don't remember me!" I'm like, 'Oh Dad I'm sorry!'
Only some people get what they want. Those are the people who show up to get it.
Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.
More movement, and the sense of bodies being shackled in alongside of me.
The most beautiful adventures are not those we go to seek.
Newspapermen learn to call a murderer 'an alleged murderer' and the King of England 'the alleged King of England' to avoid libel suits.

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

We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
The more freedom we enjoy, the greater the responsibility we bear, toward others as well as ourselves.
For visions come not to polluted eyes.
Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
My head rang like a gong.
A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.
Write a wise saying and your name will live forever.

ponedjeljak, 12.07.2010.

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.

After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.
The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.
I never vote for anyone; I always vote against.
I have always felt that a politician is to be judged by the animosities he excites among his opponents.
Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
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.
Feet, why do I need them if I have wings to fly?

There?s so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets?

At the mention of the word mace, the guy looked scared and kind of melted back, though the crowd kept him moving forward.
Truth has beauty, power and necessity.
He who boasts of his ancestry is praising the deeds of another.
We rarely think people have good sense unless they agree with us.
The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry is like the potato - the best part under ground.
When everyone is against you, it means that you are absolutely wrong-- or absolutely right.
None are so busy as the fool and knave.

Only a half of million people live in Tasmania, and a large part of the island is still covered with wild, beautiful wild forests.

We learn something every day, and lots of times it's that what we learned the day before was wrong.
Our patience will achieve more than our force.
The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star.
Have patience awhile; slanders are not long-lived. Truth is the child of time; erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee.
You can have it all. You just can't have it all at once.
One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.
In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from.

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

Learning to live in the present moment is part of the path of joy.
Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms.
I never vote for anyone; I always vote against.
I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for; perfection is God's business.
There were millions of ways that the world could kill me.
Memory feeds imagination.

The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.

The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards.
It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.
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 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.
All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.
Skiing combines outdoor fun with knocking down trees with your face.

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.

Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.
Experience is a good teacher, but she send in terrific bills.
Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
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.
I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
I'd learned my lesson.
More movement, and the sense of bodies being shackled in alongside of me.

There are many other works of Euclid which appear to be lost to time, but his primary work in The Elements is what made him famous.

Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
The car rocked back and forth and tipped uphill.
You freeze where you are, time stops, and your heart thunders in your ears.
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.
Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment.
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.
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.

The frequency of abortions in Russia is one of the highest in the world.

Hope is tomorrow's veneer over today's disappointment.
We play the hands of cards life gives us. And the worst hands can make us the best players.
Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up.
The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco.
The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.
Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.
What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?

Above all things, never be afraid. The enemy who forces you to retreat is himself afraid of you at that very moment.

Van's sweater was soaked in blood.
When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.
Do not be awe struck by other people and try to copy them. Nobody can be you as efficiently as you can.
Each individual woman's body demands to be accepted on its own terms.
A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnecessary.
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.
Speak when you are angry--and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret.

subota, 10.07.2010.

Many larger mammals such as bear, wolf have been hunted to extinction, others are now protected by law.

Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.
Rest is the sweet sauce of labor.
The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.
Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.
We rarely think people have good sense unless they agree with us.
There is an evil tendency underlying all our technology - the tendency to do what is reasonable even when it isn't any good.
When they discover the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to discover they are not it.

It really doesn't matter if the person who hurt you deserves to be forgiven. Forgiveness is a gift you give yourself. You have things to do and you want to move on.

The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.
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.
If it weren't for baseball, many kids wouldn't know what a millionaire looked like.
When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.
Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality.
Try to put your happiness before anyone else's, because you may never have done so in your entire life, if you really think about it, if you are really honest with yourself.
You know what's interesting about Washington? It's the kind of place where second-guessing has become second nature.

It is winter now.

The world tolerates conceit from those who are successful, but not from anybody else.
I'd learned my lesson.
The scornful nostril and the high head gather not the odors that lie on the track of truth.
Never rely on the glory of the morning nor the smiles of your mother-in-law.
Americans are benevolently ignorant about Canada, while Canadians are malevolently well informed about the United States.
It?s like your batteries get low, and you need to charge them on someone else?s story.
He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.

Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousand of miles and all the years you have lived.

Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day.
It is impossible to walk rapidly and be unhappy.
The only difference between a rut and a grave... is in their dimensions.
Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
I felt the doors open near me, and then saw a confusion of booted feet moving close by.
We rarely think people have good sense unless they agree with us.
Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today.

He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.

It is not enough to aim; you must hit.
It's a dangerous business going out your front door.
Rest is the sweet sauce of labor.
I'm going to stay in show business until I'm the last one left.
What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?
Hope is tomorrow's veneer over today's disappointment.
I kept talking. "Listen -- this is some kind of misunderstanding.

Americans are benevolently ignorant about Canada, while Canadians are malevolently well informed about the United States.

He had learned over the years that poor people did not feel so poor when allowed to give occasionally.
A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
We need anything politically important rationed out like Pez: small, sweet, and coming out of a funny, plastic head.
I shouted, and earned a hard thump on my head for my trouble.
For visions come not to polluted eyes.
Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to be caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self.
I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.

The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it.

What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?
It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't.
It is wonderful how quickly you get used to things, even the most astonishing.
The crux... is that the vast majority of the mass of the universe seems to be missing.
Fall is my favorite season in Los Angeles, watching the birds change color and fall from the trees.
Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.
There is an applause superior to that of the multitudes: one's own.

Innovation has nothing to do with how many R&D dollars you have. When Apple came up with the Mac, IBM was spending at least 100 times more on R&D. It's not about money. It's about the people you have, how you're led, and how much you get it.

The Past is to be respected and acknoledged, but not to be worshiped. It is our future in which we will find our greatness.
We learn and grow and are transformed not so much by what we do but by why and how we do it.
A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnecessary.
Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.
Nobody is ever met at the airport when beginning a new adventure. It's just not done.
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.
The Americans have need of the telephone, but we do not. We have plenty of messenger boys.

Early cultures, which viewed education as a system of absorbing a well-defined subject matter, offered little opportunity for speculation.

It is wonderful how quickly you get used to things, even the most astonishing.
The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.
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.
You freeze where you are, time stops, and your heart thunders in your ears.
You create your opportunities by asking for them.
We should every night call ourselves to an account; What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed? What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired? Our vices will abort of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.
I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy!

utorak, 06.07.2010.

The room is always filled with the sounds of music.

If God had wanted us to vote, he would have given us candidates.
I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars.
The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility.
All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.
I guess we'd be living in a boring, perfect world if everybody wished everybody else well.
There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.

One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.

Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
We may not imagine how our lives could be more frustrating and complex--but Congress can.
None are so busy as the fool and knave.
To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.
Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment.
If God had wanted us to vote, he would have given us candidates.
Creative work is play. It is free speculation using materials of one's chosen form.

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

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.
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.
Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.
You can only cure retail but you can prevent .
My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
It really doesn't matter if the person who hurt you deserves to be forgiven. Forgiveness is a gift you give yourself. You have things to do and you want to move on.
Nothing is as simple as we hope it will be.

That means that even if an alcoholic has been sober for a long while and has regained health, he or she remains susceptible to relapse and must continue to avoid all alcoholic beverages.

You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.
There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.
A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money.
I was gratified to be able to answer promptly. I said I don't know.
We think in generalities, but we live in detail.
See things as they are and write about them. Don?t waste your creative energy trying to make things up. Even if you are writing fiction, write the things you see and know.
A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of.

There are four seasons in a year: spring, summer, autumn and winter. December, January and February are winter months.

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 ended up stepping on her stomach as the crowd pushed me past her, but by then I don't think she was feeling anything.
Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable.
If God had wanted us to vote, he would have given us candidates.
I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty... But I am too busy thinking about myself.
You never know how a horse will pull until you hook him up to a heavy load.
You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.