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utorak, 26.10.2010.

By the time Thomas Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence in 1776, the number had doubled again, to I billion.

At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.
A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' (I found it!) but 'That's funny ...'
Never eat more than you can lift.
Some people make headlines while others make history.
What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.
Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack.

The car slewed to a stop and only then did I notice that it wasn't a cop car, ambulance or fire-engine.

The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.
I got up the third step and reached for the fourth, but it wasn't there.
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.
Think of yourself as an incandescent power, illuminated and perhaps forever talked to by God and his messengers.
Intimacy is being seen and known as the person you truly are.
There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.
Whatever you fear most has no power - it is your fear that has the power.

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

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.
Neither did the cop car that went past, nor the firetruck, nor the next three cop-cars.
Sometimes love will pick you up by the short hairs...and jerk the heck out of you.
Music is essentially useless, as life is.
Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that's where you renew your springs that never dry up.
The best of us must sometimes eat our words.
Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.

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.

So little time and so little to do.
People fail forward to success.
Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.
We are made to persist. That's how we find out who we are.
A sympathetic Scot summed it all up very neatly in the remark, "You should make a point of trying every experience once, excepting incest and folk dancing."
A smiling face is half the meal.
Have patience awhile; slanders are not long-lived. Truth is the child of time; erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee.

Drinking at work, problem drinking, and frequency of getting "drunk" in the past 30 days were positively associated with frequency of absenteeism, arriving late to work or leaving early, doing poor work, doing less work, and arguing with co-workers.

Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.
Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.
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?
He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.
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.
Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain.

The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.

Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.
Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.
The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it.
Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.
Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.
Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
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 also live in a flat and I can say that all these disadvantages don't bother me very much, and in general it's a good type of housing.

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.
Sorrow was like the wind. It came in gusts.
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.
He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.
Memory feeds imagination.
Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth?Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.
There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.

There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.

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.
You never know how a horse will pull until you hook him up to a heavy load.
He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.
I've never quite believed that one chance is all I get.
There is an evil tendency underlying all our technology - the tendency to do what is reasonable even when it isn't any good.
An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought.
All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.

His work in geometry provided the foundation on which all future mathematicians were educated.

When someone does something good, applaud! You will make two people happy.
Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.
Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
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.
The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.
Good taste is the enemy of comedy.
Be careful that victories do not carry the seed of future defeats.

subota, 23.10.2010.

It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.

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.
Anger is never without Reason, but seldom with a good One.
He who laughs, lasts!
A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of.
The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.
It was a military-looking Jeep, like an armored Hummer, only it didn't have any military insignia on it.
Make a decision, even if it's wrong.

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

Peace is when time doesn't matter as it passes by.
We learn and grow and are transformed not so much by what we do but by why and how we do it.
I am not sincere, even when I say I am not.
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.
If a dog jumps in your lap, it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does the same thing, it is because your lap is warmer.
After all it is those who have a deep and real inner life who are best able to deal with the irritating details of outer life.
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.

? Have you ever had a drink first thing in the morning to steady your nerves or to get rid of a hangover (Eye opener)?

Hollywood is a place where they place you under contract instead of under observation.
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.
It's very hard to take yourself too seriously when you look at the world from outer space.
My home is not a place, it is people.
Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.
My theory of evolution is that Darwin was adopted.

Be more prompt to go to a friend in adversity than in prosperity.

A hobby a day keeps the doldrums away.
Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.
I 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.
A few seconds later, I tripped over a steel staircase, bashing my shins.
If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe.
My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.

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

The strongest possible piece of advice I would give any young woman is: Don't screw around, and don't smoke.
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.
You know what's interesting about Washington? It's the kind of place where second-guessing has become second nature.
Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to be caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self.
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.
Feet, why do I need them if I have wings to fly?

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 &

If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
It had only one fault. It was kind of lousy.
To err is human, but to really foul things up requires a computer.
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.
I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty... But I am too busy thinking about myself.

Euclid is thought to have lived from 325-265 BC, mostly in Alexandria.

I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.
After all it is those who have a deep and real inner life who are best able to deal with the irritating details of outer life.
Worrying about them always struck me as about as useful as worrying about getting hit by lightning.
I'd learned my lesson.
Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.
Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
Temptation rarely comes in working hours. It is in their leisure time that men are made or marred.

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

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.
Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards.
It was a military-looking Jeep, like an armored Hummer, only it didn't have any military insignia on it.
A joke's a very serious thing.
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
Censorship, like charity, should begin at home; but, unlike charity, it should end there.
The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too.

This is the challenge of writing. You have to be very emotionally engaged in what you?re doing, or it comes out flat. You can?t fake your way through this.

The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said.
As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
Van's sweater was soaked in blood.
The crux... is that the vast majority of the mass of the universe seems to be missing.
Learning to live in the present moment is part of the path of joy.
Sorrow was like the wind. It came in gusts.
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.

srijeda, 20.10.2010.

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

The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.
You never know how a horse will pull until you hook him up to a heavy load.
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
Paradise is exactly like where you are right now... only much, much better.
Each individual woman's body demands to be accepted on its own terms.
I don't generally feel anything until noon; then it's time for my nap.
By prizing heartfulness above faultlessness, we may reap more from our effort because we're more likely to be changed by it.

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

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.
The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star.
Inspiration does exist, but it must find you working.
Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.
Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.
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 heard Jolu respond, then felt the thump he was dealt, too.

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

Vegetarianism is harmless enough, though it is apt to fill a man with wind and self-righteousness.
I opened my mouth, then shut it, then, very slowly, I held my hands up in front of me.
He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.
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.
The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star.
You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.
The car slewed to a stop and only then did I notice that it wasn't a cop car, ambulance or fire-engine.

Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.

Paradise is exactly like where you are right now... only much, much better.
Sometimes the cure for restlessness is rest.
A minute's success pays the failure of years.
I opened my mouth, then shut it, then, very slowly, I held my hands up in front of me.
Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.
Funny business, a woman's career: the things you drop on the way up the ladder so you can move faster. You forget you'll need them again when you get back to being a woman. It's one career all females have in common, whether we like it or not: being a woman.
Newspapermen learn to call a murderer 'an alleged murderer' and the King of England 'the alleged King of England' to avoid libel suits.

The party's national organization was perfected at Pittsburgh in Feb., 1856, and its first presidential candidate, John C. Fremont , made a creditable showing against victorious James Buchanan.

Feet, why do I need them if I have wings to fly?
Nothing changes your opinion of a friend so surely as success - yours or his.
Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others.
There is an alchemy in sorrow. It can be transmuted into wisdom, which, if it does not bring joy, can yet bring happiness.
The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
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.
Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day, it will make itself felt at the end of the year.

If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.

Each body has its art...
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.
Never let the demands of tomorrow interfere with the pleasures and excitement of today.
Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.
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.
Sooner or later, we've got to work at it, no matter how many other careers we've had or wanted.
Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.

I stand in awe of my body.

You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.
Sooner or later, we've got to work at it, no matter how many other careers we've had or wanted.
If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play at it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf.
We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.
The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.
Good breeding consists of concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.
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.

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

Why the hell would terrorists kidnap a bunch of high school students?
A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.
Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid.
After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.
The better part of valor is discretion, in the which better part I have saved my life.
To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all.
Never despair; but if you do, work on in despair.

Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.

All things are difficult before they are easy.
My home is not a place, it is people.
Love truth, and pardon error.
In the absences of a decent time machine, fiction remains the most sturdy vehicle for visiting other eras.
Never rely on the glory of the morning nor the smiles of your mother-in-law.
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.
History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.

Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, not swallowed.

Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less.
Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn't block traffic.
What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?
Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke.
Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
Have patience awhile; slanders are not long-lived. Truth is the child of time; erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee.

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

Rest is the sweet sauce of labor.
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.
It is not enough to aim; you must hit.
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.
Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today.
O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.
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?

O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.

We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.
You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
Writing gives you the illusion of control, and then you realize it's just an illusion, that people are going to bring their own stuff into it.
I think people want their illusions and writers are mostly illusion. When you read their words, you read a flattened, incomplete version of the writer.
Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it.
Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.
The crux... is that the vast majority of the mass of the universe seems to be missing.

My eyes swam and watered and I literally couldn't breathe through the pain.

The only difference between a rut and a grave... is in their dimensions.
...happiness gives us the energy which is the basis of health.
People fail forward to success.
On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily lying down.
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.
Nothing changes your opinion of a friend so surely as success - yours or his.
There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.

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

What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?
He who boasts of his ancestry is praising the deeds of another.
A sympathetic Scot summed it all up very neatly in the remark, "You should make a point of trying every experience once, excepting incest and folk dancing."
Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.
Van's sweater was soaked in blood.
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.
Creative work is play. It is free speculation using materials of one's chosen form.

The library is helpful when I have to make a report, when I need information on some subjects.

By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd be grown up.
Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.
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.
It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right - especially when one is right.
Hollywood is a place where they place you under contract instead of under observation.
The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.
The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility.

Is there life before death?

The most beautiful adventures are not those we go to seek.
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.
Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.
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.
Never eat more than you can lift.
For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
We succeed only as we identify in life, or in war, or in anything else, a single overriding objective, and make all other considerations bend to that one objective.

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

Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.
Everybody likes to go their own way--to choose their own time and manner of devotion.
Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to be caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self.
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.
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' (I found it!) but 'That's funny ...'
The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt.
It's a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn't want to hear.

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

An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.
Cheerfulness, it would appear, is a matter which depends fully as much on the state of things within, as on the state of things without and around us.
There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
The only difference between a rut and a grave... is in their dimensions.
Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.
Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.
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.

What's another word for Thesaurus?

The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.
What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty.
The only time to buy these is on a day with no 'y' in it.
I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.
What some people mistake for the high cost of living is really the cost of high living.
The car skidded to a stop just in front of me, and I jumped back and lost my balance and ended up on the road.
If there's one thing I know it's God does love a good joke.

What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?

I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.
It is not enough to do good; one must do it the right way.
Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.
By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.
The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all of your time.
A tactical retreat is not a bad response to a surprise assault, you know. First you survive. Then you choose your own ground. Then you counterattack.

There are plenty of good five-cent cigars in the country. The trouble is they cost a quarter. What this country needs is a good five-cent nickel.

The freedom of all is essential to my freedom.
Experience is a good teacher, but she send in terrific bills.
Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.
Inspiration does exist, but it must find you working.
A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.
If you don't know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else.
You should not live one way in private, another in public.

Cinemas in England are usually large and more comfortable than the theatres.

Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.
Let not the sands of time get in your lunch.
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.
I stumbled some, then a hand pushed my head down and I was inside the Hummer.
How could you be a Great Man if history brought you no Great Events, or brought you to them at the wrong time, too young, too old?
People fail forward to success.
Feet, why do I need them if I have wings to fly?

Optimism and hope are our best friends. Let?s reach out and Laugh together at our confounding traits and still, let?s keep in mind that our sympt oms and traits are very real with consequences, never to be underestimated or discounted.

Hares can gambol over the body of a dead lion.
Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.
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.
Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to be caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self.
Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
Someone went upside my head again.
There is an applause superior to that of the multitudes: one's own.

It's never just a game when you're winning.

Why do writers write? Because it isn't there.
Liberals are very broadminded: they are always willing to give careful consideration to both sides of the same side.
Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
Summer afternoon - Summer afternoon... the two most beautiful words in the English language.
When they discover the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to discover they are not it.
Anger at lies lasts forever. Anger at truth can't last.
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.

Howard Hughes was able to afford the luxury of madness, like a man who not only thinks he is Napoleon but hires an army to prove it.

Electricity is actually made up of extremely tiny particles called electrons, that you cannot see with the naked eye unless you have been drinking.
Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
The freedom of all is essential to my freedom.
Life engenders life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.
Do not be awe struck by other people and try to copy them. Nobody can be you as efficiently as you can.
I'm moving, but don't worry! Someone once told me we're all on the same planet, so I'll be okay!
People will buy anything that is one to a customer.

To try to be better is to be better.

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.
I'd never really believed in terrorists before.
We were in the open concourse where the turnstiles were. It was hardly any better here -- the enclosed space sent the voices around us echoing back in a roar that made my head ring, and the smell and feeling of all those bodies made me feel a claustrophobia I'd never known I was prone to.
The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it.
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.'
Better by far you should forget and smile than you should remember and be sad.
How we remember, what we remember and why we remember form the most personal map of our individuality.

The reform wing of the party, led by Carl Schurz, deserted Blaine for the conservative Democrat Grover Cleveland, who was elected.

Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.
Go often to the house of thy friend; for weeds soon choke up the unused path.
Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.
I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!
Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth?Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.
If your parents never had children, chances are you won't, either.
Without the capacity to provide its own information, the mind drifts into randomness.

They have a higher flavor and a much deeper color than Scotch or Irish and require from two to three years longer to mature.

The faceless, eyeless armed man above me kept his gun very level.
So quick and so fiercely I barely had time to gasp before it was locked on me.
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.
How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!
Never rely on the glory of the morning nor the smiles of your mother-in-law.
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.
A man is too apt to forget that in this world he cannot have everything. A choice is all that is left him.

Exercise ferments the humors, casts them into their proper channels, throws off redundancies, and helps nature in those secret distributions, without which the body cannot subsist in its vigor, nor the soul act with cheerfulness.

I'd learned my lesson.
Money doesn't always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are no happier than people with nine million dollars.
Arguments are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often convincing.
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.
Do not be awe struck by other people and try to copy them. Nobody can be you as efficiently as you can.
What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?
If you don't know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else.

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

You never know how a horse will pull until you hook him up to a heavy load.
Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.
Part of being creative is learning how to protect your freedom. That includes freedom from avarice.
Terrorists killed a lot fewer people than bathroom falls and accidental electrocutions.
The Past is to be respected and acknoledged, but not to be worshiped. It is our future in which we will find our greatness.
The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
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.

A service is usually excellent and friendly waiters help you to relax and enjoy your meal fully.

Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
If you're trying to take a roomful of people by surprise, it's a lot easier to hit your targets if you don't yell going through the door.
A minute's success pays the failure of years.
I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.
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.
Someone went upside my head again.
Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.

We learn and grow and are transformed not so much by what we do but by why and how we do it.

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.
It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.
Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinions at all.
The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.
As long as you derive inner help and comfort from anything, keep it.
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' (I found it!) but 'That's funny ...'
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.

Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.

The scornful nostril and the high head gather not the odors that lie on the track of truth.
No matter what I do, no matter how predictable I try to make my life, it will not be any more predictable than the rest of the world. Which is chaotic.
Beware the pull on your heartstrings -- it's often the pursestrings that are actually being reached for.
Liberals are very broadminded: they are always willing to give careful consideration to both sides of the same side.
America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.
To repeat what others have said, requires education; to challenge it, requires brains.
To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level.

Cereals and grains are important for us because they provide us with the energy we need for physical activity.

Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
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.
A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
I was in total darkness now and I strained my ears to hear what was going on with my friends.
Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half the time.
We succeed only as we identify in life, or in war, or in anything else, a single overriding objective, and make all other considerations bend to that one objective.
Maybe they were terrorists!

I like to play blackjack. I'm not addicted to gambling, I'm addicted to sitting in a semi-circle.

I am not sincere, even when I say I am not.
He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.
A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
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.'
Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity.
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.
Having a holiday weekend without a family member felt like putting on a sweater that had an extra arm.

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.

Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers.
I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
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.
Use what you have to run toward your best - that's how I now live my life.
I went up the stairs cautiously, not able to use my hands.
If you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome; if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent; if you believe the military, nothing is safe.

When they discover the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to discover they are not it.

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.
We bear the world and we make it... There was never a great man who had not a great mother - it is hardly an exaggeration.
Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.
Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable.
Worrying about them always struck me as about as useful as worrying about getting hit by lightning.
I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.
It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.

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.

Photographers do this for a living, every single day -- they point their lenses toward every single corner of our world and somehow make the mundane mesmerizing through their artistic eye. It's all a matter of being aware of your surroundings and realizing that there are some really amazing and interesting things to look at, even if it may just be something so simple as a wall being covered up by paint.
Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.
College isn't the place to go for ideas.
Think of yourself as an incandescent power, illuminated and perhaps forever talked to by God and his messengers.
My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists.
A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms.
Students achieving Oneness will move on to Twoness.

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.

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.
The 'Net is a waste of time, and that's exactly what's right about it.
More bodies were roughly shoved in beside me.
Be more prompt to go to a friend in adversity than in prosperity.
The trick is to make sure you don't die waiting for prosperity to come.
When you want to believe in something, you also have to believe in everything that's necessary for believing in it.
Where we have strong emotions, we're liable to fool ourselves.

Nothing is so good for an ignorant man as silence; and if he was sensible of this he would not be ignorant.

So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.
You can go a long way with bad legs and a good head.
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!
Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.
God creates men, but they choose each other.
I had no idea how much of this was making it through the muffling bag.
We need anything politically important rationed out like Pez: small, sweet, and coming out of a funny, plastic head.

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 &

Everyone wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant.
Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.
The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself.
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory.
I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty... But I am too busy thinking about myself.
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.

These books excite my imagination. I think I devote much time to reading.

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.
We learn something every day, and lots of times it's that what we learned the day before was wrong.
A sympathetic Scot summed it all up very neatly in the remark, "You should make a point of trying every experience once, excepting incest and folk dancing."
Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper.
That you may retain your self-respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right, than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong.
The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it.
The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.

Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.

You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans.
I say luck is when an opportunity comes along, and you're prepared for it.
O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.
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 like to play blackjack. I'm not addicted to gambling, I'm addicted to sitting in a semi-circle.
Life engenders life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.
Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus, but use all gently. For in the very torrent, tempest, and as I may say, whirlwind of passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance that may give it smoothness.

Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.

Act as if it were impossible to fail.
Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
Anything looked at closely becomes wonderful.
What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?
The only difference between a rut and a grave... is in their dimensions.
Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.

If you refuse to be made straight when you are green, you will not be made straight when you are dry.

Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus, but use all gently. For in the very torrent, tempest, and as I may say, whirlwind of passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance that may give it smoothness.
The most erroneous stories are those we think we know best - and therefore never scrutinize or question.
Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.
There is surely a piece of divinity in us, something that was before the elements, and owes no homage unto the sun.
There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.
Money frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy.
I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.

Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.

The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is inefficiency. An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty.
Editor: a person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed.
As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.
Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to 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.
Art is science made clear.
My home is not a place, it is people.

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

People were still cramming down the stairs, and more were squeezing past the turnstiles and down the escalators onto the platforms, but it was clear to me that this wasn't going to have a happy ending.
It's a dangerous business going out your front door.
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.
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.
Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain.
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.
Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.

He was tortured and hanged, Catesby was killed, resisting arrest in his own house.

I don't like composers who think. It gets in the way of their plagiarism.
Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality... the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.
Never let the demands of tomorrow interfere with the pleasures and excitement of today.
We learn and grow and are transformed not so much by what we do but by why and how we do it.
Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
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.
The scornful nostril and the high head gather not the odors that lie on the track of truth.

Lincoln's victory over Stephen A. Douglas, John C. Breckinridge, and John Bell was the signal for the secession of the Southern states, and the Civil War followed.

Equal opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent.
True friends are those who really know you but love you anyway.
Nothing can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.
Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.
Nothing is said that has not been said before.
The hands behind me gave me another shove.
Here's to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes... the ones who see things differently -- they're not fond of rules... You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you can't do is ignore them because they change things... they push the human race forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius, because the ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do.

The ballet seemed to me a fairy-tale. When the last curtain fell, the house burst out into applause.

The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.
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.
Students achieving Oneness will move on to Twoness.
There are a terrible lot of lies going around the world, and the worst of it is half of them are true.
Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.
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.
God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.

Sometimes love will pick you up by the short hairs...and jerk the heck out of you.

A hypocrite is a person who--but who isn't?
Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.
If a dog jumps in your lap, it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does the same thing, it is because your lap is warmer.
What children take from us, they give?We become people who feel more deeply, question more deeply, hurt more deeply, and love more deeply.
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 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.
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.

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

Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit.
The engine died and then the doors swung open.
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.
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.
Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.
Be a good listener. Your ears will never get you in trouble.
Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.

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Better by far you should forget and smile than you should remember and be sad.

You couldn't even prove the White House staff sane beyond a reasonable doubt.
My home is not a place, it is people.
The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.
Dance is the hidden language of the soul.
If you're trying to take a roomful of people by surprise, it's a lot easier to hit your targets if you don't yell going through the door.
It is not enough to aim; you must hit.
Nothing is so awesomely unfamiliar as the familiar that discloses itself at the end of a journey.

Oh, I don't blame Congress. If I had $600 billion at my disposal, I'd be irresponsible, too.

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
Never eat more than you can lift.
Money frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy.
We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.
Be sincere; be brief; be seated.
An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.
People will buy anything that is one to a customer.

Overpopulation, pollution and energy consumption have created such planet-wide problems as massive deforestation, ozone depletion, acid rains and the global warming that is believed to be coused by the greenhouse effect.

'Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.' Under the influence of this pestilent morality, I am forever letting tomorrow's work slop backwards into today's, and doing painfully and nervously today what I could do quickly and easily tomorrow.
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.
I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.
He was one of those men who think that the world can be saved by writing a pamphlet.
Memory feeds imagination.
Experience is a good teacher, but she send in terrific bills.
Paradise is exactly like where you are right now... only much, much better.

There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth.

When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.
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?
Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn't block traffic.
If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.
Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.
Many people weigh the guilt they will feel against the pleasure of the forbidden action they want to take.
That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.

Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.

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.
Each body has its art...
Time is that quality of nature which keeps events from happening all at once. Lately it doesn't seem to be working.
Is there life before death?
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.
What if this weren't a hypothetical question?
When they discover the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to discover they are not it.

Never make a defense or an apology until you are accused.

I didn't even breathe.
History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.
We are able to laugh when we achieve detachment, if only for a moment.
Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.
Inspiration does exist, but it must find you working.
There is an alchemy in sorrow. It can be transmuted into wisdom, which, if it does not bring joy, can yet bring happiness.
God creates men, but they choose each other.

I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars.

Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily lying down.
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.
Money doesn't always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are no happier than people with nine million dollars.
I am not young enough to know everything.
Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that of another.
How could you be a Great Man if history brought you no Great Events, or brought you to them at the wrong time, too young, too old?

I 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.

O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.
Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
I mean, I knew that in the abstract there were terrorists somewhere in the world, but they didn't really represent any risk to me.
Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.
I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
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.
Confidence is the sexiest thing a woman can have. It's much sexier than any body part.

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

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.
The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out the conservative adopts them.
The 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.
Never does the human soul appear so strong and noble as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury.
You freeze where you are, time stops, and your heart thunders in your ears.
A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit.

There are no deserts in Tasmania.

All great truths begin as blasphemies.
Skiing combines outdoor fun with knocking down trees with your face.
It is not enough to aim; you must hit.
I was in total darkness now and I strained my ears to hear what was going on with my friends.
Walking is man's best medicine.
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.
Truly great madness cannot be achieved without significant intelligence.

Euclid is thought to have lived from 325-265 BC, mostly in Alexandria.

A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.
Without the capacity to provide its own information, the mind drifts into randomness.
They can conquer who believe they can.
I've been on a diet for two weeks and all I've lost is two weeks.
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.
The charity that hastens to proclaim its good deeds, ceases to be charity, and is only pride and ostentation.
He attacked everything in life with a mix of extrordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which was which.

The Red Sea was an important trade route in antiquity.

How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!
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.'
We rarely think people have good sense unless they agree with us.
A chess genius is a human being who focuses vast, little-understood mental gifts and labors on an ultimately trivial human enterprise.
Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality... the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.
There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers.
When I came back to Dublin I was courtmartialed in my absence and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.

My choice of this occupation didn't come as a sudden flash.

An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.
It's wonderful what we can do if we're always doing.
People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.
To believe in God or in a guiding force because someone tells you to is the height of stupidity. We are given senses to receive our information within. With our own eyes we see, and with our own skin we feel. With our intelligence, it is intended that we understand. But each person must puzzle it out for himself or herself.
The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.
Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.
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.'

You always pass failure on the way to success.

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.
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.
What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?
My theory of evolution is that Darwin was adopted.
A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.
Better shun the bait, than struggle in the snare.

Its importance declined with the discovery of an all-water route around Africa in 1498.

In the absences of a decent time machine, fiction remains the most sturdy vehicle for visiting other eras.
Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.
Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.
Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.
When someone does something good, applaud! You will make two people happy.
If a dog jumps in your lap, it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does the same thing, it is because your lap is warmer.
The most beautiful adventures are not those we go to seek.

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

To be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
I despise the pleasure of pleasing people that I despise.
Treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.
It was a military-looking Jeep, like an armored Hummer, only it didn't have any military insignia on it.
It is only possible to live happily ever after on a day-to-day basis.
Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up.
There is no stigma attached to recognizing a bad decision in time to install a better one.

I heard Jolu respond, then felt the thump he was dealt, too.

For the most part, fear is nothing but an illusion. When you share it with someone else, it tends to disappear.
Things won are done; joy's soul lies in the doing.
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.
If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk?
Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousand of miles and all the years you have lived.
Play: Work that you enjoy doing for nothing.
I never vote for anyone; I always vote against.

četvrtak, 14.10.2010.

It probably produces fewer headlines than wars, earthquakes and floods, but it is potentially one of history's greatest dangers to human life on earth.

I don't like composers who think. It gets in the way of their plagiarism.
Nothing is as simple as we hope it will be.
A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms.
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.
Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.
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.
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 number of ducks, geese and other water fowl has diminished during recent years.

The freedom of all is essential to my freedom.
Be thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till all commend.
How we remember, what we remember and why we remember form the most personal map of our individuality.
No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.
Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.
The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.
I?m telling you, things are getting out of hand. Or maybe I?m discovering that things were never in my hands.

He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.

Without the capacity to provide its own information, the mind drifts into randomness.
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
Money doesn't always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are no happier than people with nine million dollars.
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.
It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
Be thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till all commend.

They join and support various international organosation and green parties.

O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.
Get pleasure out of life...as much as you can. Nobody ever died from pleasure.
I'd never really believed in terrorists before.
Go often to the house of thy friend; for weeds soon choke up the unused path.
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
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.
For the night was not impartial. No, the night loved some more than others, served some more than others.

One of them is to give presents to each other.

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.
The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.
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.
I am not young enough to know everything.
There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.
The art of dining well is no slight art, the pleasure not a slight pleasure.
Feet, why do I need them if I have wings to fly?

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

I define comfort as self-acceptance. When we finally learn that self-care begins and ends with ourselves, we no longer demand sustenance and happiness from others.
It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right - especially when one is right.
History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.
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 better to offer no excuse than a bad one.
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.

When you want to believe in something, you also have to believe in everything that's necessary for believing in it.

Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.
I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming... suddenly you find - at the age of 50, say - that a whole new life has opened before you.
I was sick of cars driving right past me.
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.'
I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
My mother loved children -- she would have given anything if I had been one.
You should not live one way in private, another in public.

The reader has to solve the mystery and decide who the murderer is hand-in-hand with the author.

The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt.
Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
Hearing voices no one else can hear isn't a good sign, even in the wizarding world.
Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that's where you renew your springs that never dry up.
I daresay one profits more by the mistakes one makes off one's own bat than by doing the right thing on somebody's else advice.
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.
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 guess we'd be living in a boring, perfect world if everybody wished everybody else well.

I am not young enough to know everything.
The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star.
Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.
I don't generally feel anything until noon; then it's time for my nap.
To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all.
Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the game, and dumb enough to think it's important.
Anger at lies lasts forever. Anger at truth can't last.

If God had wanted us to vote, he would have given us candidates.

Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
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.
Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far.
Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.
Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.
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.
The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.

The great thing about a computer notebook is that no matter how much you stuff into it, it doesn't get bigger or heavier.

Many people weigh the guilt they will feel against the pleasure of the forbidden action they want to take.
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 have very strong feelings about how you lead your life. You always look ahead, you never look back.
There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
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 people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.
Make a decision, even if it's wrong.

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.

A hypocrite is a person who--but who isn't?
The more freedom we enjoy, the greater the responsibility we bear, toward others as well as ourselves.
Man is only miserable so far as he thinks himself so.
I feel about airplanes the way I feel about diets. It seems to me they are wonderful things for other people to go on.
Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.
We don't get offered crises, they arrive.
What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!

Agatha Christie was sure the world's best selling crime writer.

What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.
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.
My father hated radio and could not wait for television to be invented so he could hate that too.
Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
A few seconds later, I tripped over a steel staircase, bashing my shins.
Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done.

What Is Alcohol Abuse?

In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
You should not live one way in private, another in public.
Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack.
He who is not very strong in memory should not meddle with lying.
Deeds, not words shall speak me.
A few seconds later, I tripped over a steel staircase, bashing my shins.
Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anyone else.

The Reagan-Bush Years to the Present

Nothing is as simple as we hope it will be.
I must create a system, or be enslaved by another man's.
A smiling face is half the meal.
The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value.
Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn't block traffic.
We are always in search of the redeeming formula, the crystallizing thought.
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.

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

The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it.
Oh, I don't blame Congress. If I had $600 billion at my disposal, I'd be irresponsible, too.
You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.
Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.
You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.
You couldn't even prove the White House staff sane beyond a reasonable doubt.
In an industrial society which confuses work and productivity, the necessity of producing has always been an enemy of the desire to create.

Who were these clowns?

I am not young enough to know everything.
Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up.
Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the game, and dumb enough to think it's important.
To err is human, but to really foul things up requires a computer.
The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory.
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.

Part of being creative is learning how to protect your freedom. That includes freedom from avarice.

There is an evil tendency underlying all our technology - the tendency to do what is reasonable even when it isn't any good.
Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.
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.
A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of.
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.
I have been through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.

The autumn months are September, October and November.

Order is not pressure which is imposed on society from without, but an equilibrium which is set up from within.
Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that's where you renew your springs that never dry up.
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.
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.
In the absences of a decent time machine, fiction remains the most sturdy vehicle for visiting other eras.
At my lemonade stand I used to give the first glass away free and charge five dollars for the second glass. The refill contained the antidote.

We learn and grow and are transformed not so much by what we do but by why and how we do it.

We are always in search of the redeeming formula, the crystallizing thought.
Health consists of having the same diseases as one's neighbors.
Neither did the cop car that went past, nor the firetruck, nor the next three cop-cars.
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.
Sometimes love will pick you up by the short hairs...and jerk the heck out of you.
If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk?
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 opened my mouth, then shut it, then, very slowly, I held my hands up in front of me.

I don't own a cell phone or a pager. I just hang around everyone I know, all the time. If someone wants to get a hold of me, they just say 'Mitch,' and I say 'what?' and turn my head slightly.
Starting with getting run down by a drunk burning his way down Valencia -- that were infinitely more likely and immediate than terrorists.
I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.
Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that you live, if you do.
Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable.
He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.
Be honorable yourself if you wish to associate with honorable people.

Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law?

All the world's a cage.
Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.
I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.
History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind.
I don't own a cell phone or a pager. I just hang around everyone I know, all the time. If someone wants to get a hold of me, they just say 'Mitch,' and I say 'what?' and turn my head slightly.
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.
What some people mistake for the high cost of living is really the cost of high living.

In the room there is also a wardrobe, a chest of drawers and a fluffy carpet on the floor.

A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.
The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.
How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!
Above all things, never be afraid. The enemy who forces you to retreat is himself afraid of you at that very moment.
It was enough to make a body ashamed of the human race.
No.
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.

The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.

What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.
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.
Never does the human soul appear so strong and noble as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury.
An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.
I never met anybody who said when they were a kid, "I wanna grow up and be a critic."
The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.

The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.

Van was screaming something and Jolu was shouting and I looked at them for a second and that was when someone put a coarse.
Somebody has to do something, and it's just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.
If you scatter thorns, don't go barefoot.
We've got to get my friend to a hospital --"
He who is not very strong in memory should not meddle with lying.
We play the hands of cards life gives us. And the worst hands can make us the best players.
I went up the stairs cautiously, not able to use my hands.

There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers.

God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.
As long as you derive inner help and comfort from anything, keep it.
Without the capacity to provide its own information, the mind drifts into randomness.
So quick and so fiercely I barely had time to gasp before it was locked on me.
Truly great madness cannot be achieved without significant intelligence.
Never despair; but if you do, work on in despair.

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

An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.
I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
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.
Better by far you should forget and smile than you should remember and be sad.
The car skidded to a stop just in front of me, and I jumped back and lost my balance and ended up on the road.
I am doomed to an eternity of compulsive work. No set goal achieved satisfies. Success only breeds a new goal. The golden apple devoured has seeds. It is endless.
Life is consciousness.

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.

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.
You have no control over what the other guy does. You only have control over what you do.
Your parents, they give you your life, but then they try to give you their life.
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.
My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.
Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.

If there's one thing I know it's God does love a good joke.

Deeds, not words shall speak me.
The first vehicle that screamed past -- an ambulance -- didn't even slow down.
Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.
If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.
Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves.
I used to think that the brain was the most wonderful organ in my body. Then I realized who was telling me this.
The mellow sweetness of pumpkin pie off a prison spoon is something you will never forget.

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

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.
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.
To try to be better is to be better.
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' (I found it!) but 'That's funny ...'
We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it.
Never rely on the glory of the morning nor the smiles of your mother-in-law.
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.

Dutch settlers founded the city in 17 century.

But be, as you have been, my happiness...
Turn the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles.
To do anything truly worth doing, I must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in with gusto and scramble through as well as I can.
Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.
Nothing is so good for an ignorant man as silence; and if he was sensible of this he would not be ignorant.
If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.
I phoned my dad to tell him I had stopped smoking. He called me a quitter.

Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain.

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.
Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain.
Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers.
For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
If you want to be respected, you must respect yourself.
Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.
It is not enough to aim; you must hit.

The lion and the calf shall lie down together but the calf won't get much sleep.

If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; If you would know, and not be known, live in a city.
Creative work is play. It is free speculation using materials of one's chosen form.
I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.
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.
To do anything truly worth doing, I must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in with gusto and scramble through as well as I can.
The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry is like the potato - the best part under ground.
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.

But in general I'm sure that it's quite nice to live in a semi-detached house.

Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
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.
The summer night is like a perfection of thought.
When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers.
Let not the sands of time get in your lunch.
A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.
You can have it all. You just can't have it all at once.

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

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.
College isn't the place to go for ideas.
Now is the time for all good men to come to.
Peace is when time doesn't matter as it passes by.
Intimacy is being seen and known as the person you truly are.
Nothing is as simple as we hope it will be.
History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind.

srijeda, 13.10.2010.

To try to be better is to be better.

We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language.
Let me tell you, quite frankly, it took a while and a lot of therapy to get here.
...happiness gives us the energy which is the basis of health.
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.
I think people want their illusions and writers are mostly illusion. When you read their words, you read a flattened, incomplete version of the writer.
I mean, I knew that in the abstract there were terrorists somewhere in the world, but they didn't really represent any risk to me.
Van was screaming something and Jolu was shouting and I looked at them for a second and that was when someone put a coarse.

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

The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.
A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!
The mellow sweetness of pumpkin pie off a prison spoon is something you will never forget.
The crux... is that the vast majority of the mass of the universe seems to be missing.
If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.

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.

Speak when you are angry--and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret.
If you want to be respected, you must respect yourself.
I gathered we were headed over Nob Hill, and from the angle, it seemed we were taking one of the steeper routes.
All programmers are playwrights and all computers are lousy actors.
Have you ever observed that we pay much more attention to a wise passage when it is quoted than when we read it in the original author?
Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.
Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.

Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.

Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose.
What children take from us, they give?We become people who feel more deeply, question more deeply, hurt more deeply, and love more deeply.
Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.
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.
Fresh clean sheets are one of life's small joys.
At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.
Summer afternoon - Summer afternoon... the two most beautiful words in the English language.

Writing gives you the illusion of control, and then you realize it's just an illusion, that people are going to bring their own stuff into it.

Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.
The Past is to be respected and acknoledged, but not to be worshiped. It is our future in which we will find our greatness.
I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate.
Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
Sorrow was like the wind. It came in gusts.
We are always in search of the redeeming formula, the crystallizing thought.
Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity.

If I had a chance to go to some English - speaking country I would like to go to Australia.

I felt the doors open near me, and then saw a confusion of booted feet moving close by.
Self-importance is our greatest enemy. Think about it - what weakens us is feeling offended by the deeds and misdeeds of our fellowmen. Our self-importance requires that we spend most of our lives offended by someone.
If you don't know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else.
You can't deny laughter. When it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.
Do something. If it doesn't work, do something else. No idea is too crazy.
What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.
So quick and so fiercely I barely had time to gasp before it was locked on me.

If there's one thing I know it's God does love a good joke.

Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
Fall is my favorite season in Los Angeles, watching the birds change color and fall from the trees.
Play: Work that you enjoy doing for nothing.
Joy is prayer - Joy is strength - Joy is love - Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.
If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play at it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf.

We are always in search of the redeeming formula, the crystallizing thought.

We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language.
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.
My friend is one... who take me for what I am.
Many people weigh the guilt they will feel against the pleasure of the forbidden action they want to take.
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.
You always pass failure on the way to success.
How to Raise your I.Q. by Eating Gifted Children

If it weren't for baseball, many kids wouldn't know what a millionaire looked like.

Take a two-mile walk every morning before breakfast.
Don't mace him!" I shouted over the din. "You'll get us all too.
This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer.
The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt.
Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
Fall is my favorite season in Los Angeles, watching the birds change color and fall from the trees.
The crux... is that the vast majority of the mass of the universe seems to be missing.

One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.

Fresh clean sheets are one of life's small joys.
By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd be grown up.
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 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.
The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.
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.
Darryl wasn't in good shape -- he was white-faced and panting.

It probably produces fewer headlines than wars, earthquakes and floods, but it is potentially one of history's greatest dangers to human life on earth.

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 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!
Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives.
One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.
You create your opportunities by asking for them.
Where we have strong emotions, we're liable to fool ourselves.
Someone's boring me. I think it's me.

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.

To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.
They can conquer who believe they can.
I believe that every now and then it is important to laugh at ourselves and take a lighter approach to our life conditions.
The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
You can only cure retail but you can prevent .
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.

Why the hell would terrorists kidnap a bunch of high school students?

Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack.
I say luck is when an opportunity comes along, and you're prepared for it.
The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.
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.
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.

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

Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
Do not be awe struck by other people and try to copy them. Nobody can be you as efficiently as you can.
Experience is a good teacher, but she send in terrific bills.
It was enough to make a body ashamed of the human race.
If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.
I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.

Overpopulation, pollution and energy consumption have created such planet-wide problems as massive deforestation, ozone depletion, acid rains and the global warming that is believed to be coused by the greenhouse effect.

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
He attacked everything in life with a mix of extrordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which was which.
Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.
Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.
If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches.
I'd never looked down the barrel of a gun before, but everything you've heard about the experience is true.

Few female decision-makers can be found in positions of social importance.

The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value.
For the most part, fear is nothing but an illusion. When you share it with someone else, it tends to disappear.
Even the best of friends need time apart.
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.
There is no nonsense so errant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action.
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
If my mental map was right, we were heading down to Fisherman's Wharf.

I consider that it's the cheapest type of dwelling in a town.

The undertaking of a new action brings new strength.
There is an evil tendency underlying all our technology - the tendency to do what is reasonable even when it isn't any good.
No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.
I think it is good that books still exist, but they do make me sleepy.
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.
Treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.

To others, it is an intrusion into their personal privacy and freedom.

There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.
At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.
All movements go too far.
Where we have strong emotions, we're liable to fool ourselves.
Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone.
Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
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.

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

I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!
Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk?
Everybody likes a kidder, but nobody lends him money.
I guess we'd be living in a boring, perfect world if everybody wished everybody else well.
O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.
Somebody has to do something, and it's just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.

Recently, the Population Crisis Committee complied a human suffering index for each of 130 countries based on ten measures of human welfare.

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.
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.
We are what we repeatedly do.
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anyone else.
Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth?Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.
Late to bed and late to wake will keep you long on money and short on mistakes.

New York is the city of famous skyscrapers.

Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn whatever state I am in, therin to be content
Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
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.
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.
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.
Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far.

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

What children take from us, they give?We become people who feel more deeply, question more deeply, hurt more deeply, and love more deeply.
A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of.
You freeze where you are, time stops, and your heart thunders in your ears.
Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
He had learned over the years that poor people did not feel so poor when allowed to give occasionally.
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.
When everyone is against you, it means that you are absolutely wrong-- or absolutely right.

The importance of home is depicted in languages of all the nations: we say "East or West, home is best ", the English say "My home is my castle".

The engine died and then the doors swung open.
Think of yourself as an incandescent power, illuminated and perhaps forever talked to by God and his messengers.
Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack.
It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.
Things are only impossible until they're not.
Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.
Be a good listener. Your ears will never get you in trouble.

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

Winning is important to me, but what brings me real joy is the experience of being fully engaged in whatever I'm doing.
Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.
God creates men, but they choose each other.
He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.
There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.
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.
Nothing is as simple as we hope it will be.

I mounted a high temperature.

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.
Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anyone else.
Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.
Summer afternoon - Summer afternoon... the two most beautiful words in the English language.
You have no control over what the other guy does. You only have control over what you do.
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.

ponedjeljak, 11.10.2010.

They are the main reason for the greenhouse effect and acid rains.

I feel about airplanes the way I feel about diets. It seems to me they are wonderful things for other people to go on.
Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.
He who is not very strong in memory should not meddle with lying.
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.
A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money.
Each body has its art...
No.

Doubt 'til thou canst doubt no more...doubt is thought and thought is life. Systems which end doubt are devices for drugging thought.

Darryl wasn't in good shape -- he was white-faced and panting.
Deeds, not words shall speak me.
Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
I feel very strongly that change is good because it stirs up the system.
An idea is salvation by imagination.
We cannot destroy kindred: Our chains stretch a little sometimes, but they never break.

There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.

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.
I believe that every now and then it is important to laugh at ourselves and take a lighter approach to our life conditions.
It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.
The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.
It felt like they used a baton or something -- it was harder than anyone had ever hit me in the head before.
Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality... the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.
Sometimes love will pick you up by the short hairs...and jerk the heck out of you.

My mother showed me the boxes, the pitm the dress-circle, the tieres and balconies.

There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
It's a dangerous business going out your front door.
Self-importance is our greatest enemy. Think about it - what weakens us is feeling offended by the deeds and misdeeds of our fellowmen. Our self-importance requires that we spend most of our lives offended by someone.
If you think taking care of yourself is selfish, change your mind. If you don't, you're simply ducking your responsibilities.
Confidence is the sexiest thing a woman can have. It's much sexier than any body part.
So quick and so fiercely I barely had time to gasp before it was locked on me.
People will buy anything that is one to a customer.

My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists.

What children take from us, they give?We become people who feel more deeply, question more deeply, hurt more deeply, and love more deeply.
We play the hands of cards life gives us. And the worst hands can make us the best players.
To be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
If there's one thing I know it's God does love a good joke.
Know, first, who you are; and then adorn yourself accordingly.
History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind.

Below I've mentioned such a type of housing as a block of flats.

Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.
If you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome; if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent; if you believe the military, nothing is safe.
I love my past. I love my present. I'm not ashamed of what I've had, and I'm not sad because I have it no longer.
Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.
My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
To achieve great things we must live as though we were never going to die.
Early morning cheerfulness can be extremely obnoxious.

I've been on a diet for two weeks and all I've lost is two weeks.

I have never been especially impressed by the heroics of people who are convinced they are about to change the world. I am more awed by those who struggle to make one small difference after another.
The pain of making the necessary sacrifices always hurts more than you think it's going to. I know. It sucks. That being said, doing something seriously creative is one of the most amazing experiences one can have, in this or any other lifetime. If you can pull it off, it's worth it. Even if you don't end up pulling it off, you'll learn many incredible, magical, valuable things. It's NOT doing it when you know you full well you HAD the opportunity- that hurts FAR more than any failure.
Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.
The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it.
Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment.
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.

The growing Populist party , with its radical program, had a peculiar position in those elections, receiving in each section of the country the support of the party not in power.

Oh, I don't blame Congress. If I had $600 billion at my disposal, I'd be irresponsible, too.
To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all.
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
Terrorists killed a lot fewer people than bathroom falls and accidental electrocutions.
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.

nedjelja, 10.10.2010.

First tradition is called "Wrong side of the bed" When people are bad tempered we say that they must have got out of bed on the wrong side. Originally, it was meant quiet literally. People belive that the way they rose in the morning affected their behaiv

Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
Bacchus hath drowned more men than Neptune.
The great thing about a computer notebook is that no matter how much you stuff into it, it doesn't get bigger or heavier.
If you really do put a small value upon yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price.
So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.
I was the kid next door's imaginary friend.
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's not my rule to make hasty conclusions, I prefer to get to know more about a person, then to analyze this information and only then to draw my conclusion.

The summer night is like a perfection of thought.
I don't generally feel anything until noon; then it's time for my nap.
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from Science, along with behaviour control, genetic engineering, transplanted heads, computer poetry and the unrestrained growth of plastic flowers.
I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
There is an evil tendency underlying all our technology - the tendency to do what is reasonable even when it isn't any good.
If our early lessons of acceptance were as successful as our early lessons of anger, how much happier we would all be.

Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.

Don't mace him!" I shouted over the din. "You'll get us all too.
I write because I'm afraid to say some things out loud.
We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.
My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
You must not think me necessarily foolish because I am facetious, nor will I consider you necessarily wise because you are grave.
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.
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.

The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.

There is an evil tendency underlying all our technology - the tendency to do what is reasonable even when it isn't any good.
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.
Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
The older I grow, the less important the comma becomes. Let the reader catch his own breath.
You don't have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces - just good food from fresh ingredients.
Your parents, they give you your life, but then they try to give you their life.
Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.

Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far.

If a dog jumps in your lap, it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does the same thing, it is because your lap is warmer.
The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said.
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.
Good taste is the enemy of comedy.
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?
Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
My home is not a place, it is people.

Effects of Employee Drinking

So quick and so fiercely I barely had time to gasp before it was locked on me.
We are able to laugh when we achieve detachment, if only for a moment.
This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer.
He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.
Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far.
Temptation rarely comes in working hours. It is in their leisure time that men are made or marred.
We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language.

Moreover, she was an immensely prolific writer.

It is my hope that I can assist you in getting here too.
Keep cool and you command everybody.
Order is not pressure which is imposed on society from without, but an equilibrium which is set up from within.
Hearing voices no one else can hear isn't a good sign, even in the wizarding world.
Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.
I guess we'd be living in a boring, perfect world if everybody wished everybody else well.
Experience is a good teacher, but she send in terrific bills.

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

There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.
I never met anybody who said when they were a kid, "I wanna grow up and be a critic."
Here's to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes... the ones who see things differently -- they're not fond of rules... You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you can't do is ignore them because they change things... they push the human race forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius, because the ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do.
The 'Net is a waste of time, and that's exactly what's right about it.
I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming... suddenly you find - at the age of 50, say - that a whole new life has opened before you.
Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. And man can be as big as he wants. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.
I gathered we were headed over Nob Hill, and from the angle, it seemed we were taking one of the steeper routes.

Doubt 'til thou canst doubt no more...doubt is thought and thought is life. Systems which end doubt are devices for drugging thought.

The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
A minute's success pays the failure of years.
You couldn't even prove the White House staff sane beyond a reasonable doubt.
Write a wise saying and your name will live forever.
Take a two-mile walk every morning before breakfast.
I like to play blackjack. I'm not addicted to gambling, I'm addicted to sitting in a semi-circle.
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!'

I've been on a diet for two weeks and all I've lost is two weeks.

In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the next meal would come from.
Even the best of friends need time apart.
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.
The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.
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.
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
It's all right to have butterflies in your stomach. Just get them to fly in formation.

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.

My friends are my estate.
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
Optimism and hope are our best friends. Let?s reach out and Laugh together at our confounding traits and still, let?s keep in mind that our sympt oms and traits are very real with consequences, never to be underestimated or discounted.
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.
Let not the sands of time get in your lunch.
Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives.
Someone dragged me by my arms out onto the road, then shoved me, stumbling, down a paved road.

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.

The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
Editor: a person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed.
It is only possible to live happily ever after on a day-to-day basis.
We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.
For the most part, fear is nothing but an illusion. When you share it with someone else, it tends to disappear.
For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.

Australia is the world's largest island and the smallest continent.

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.
Bear in mind that you should conduct yourself in life as at a feast.
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.
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.
The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco.
I heard Jolu respond, then felt the thump he was dealt, too.
Confidence is the sexiest thing a woman can have. It's much sexier than any body part.

Preventing Alcohol Problems in the Workplace

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.
Never make a defense or an apology until you are accused.
Is there life before death?
Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.
I opened my mouth, then shut it, then, very slowly, I held my hands up in front of me.
Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.
But be, as you have been, my happiness...

It doesn?t matter what kind ? with raspberry favor, with marmalade, chocolate chips or pieces of fruit.

A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done.
I never vote for anyone; I always vote against.
Man is only miserable so far as he thinks himself so.
Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.
Intimacy is what makes a marriage, not a ceremony, not a piece of paper from the state.
Money doesn't always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are no happier than people with nine million dollars.
Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.

A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down.

To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level.
Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
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.
Get pleasure out of life...as much as you can. Nobody ever died from pleasure.
I say luck is when an opportunity comes along, and you're prepared for it.
There is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income.
Censorship, like charity, should begin at home; but, unlike charity, it should end there.

subota, 09.10.2010.

Equal opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent.

The freedom of all is essential to my freedom.
Keep true to the dreams of thy youth.
Early morning cheerfulness can be extremely obnoxious.
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.
I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty... But I am too busy thinking about myself.
Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.

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

There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
We are made to persist. That's how we find out who we are.
One thing I've learned in all these years is not to make love when you really don't feel it; there's probably nothing worse you can do to yourself than that.
An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.
The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself.
You could get on a boat there, get away. That fit with the terrorism hypothesis.
We were in the open concourse where the turnstiles were. It was hardly any better here -- the enclosed space sent the voices around us echoing back in a roar that made my head ring, and the smell and feeling of all those bodies made me feel a claustrophobia I'd never known I was prone to.

One famous man said: "The nature doesn't have bad weather?, so in my opinion we should like all seasons, because every season is beautiful in its own way.

Van was screaming something and Jolu was shouting and I looked at them for a second and that was when someone put a coarse.
To do anything truly worth doing, I must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in with gusto and scramble through as well as I can.
Our lives teach us who we are.
It is not enough to aim; you must hit.
Obscurity is a good thing. You can fail in obscurity. It removes the fear of failure.
If men could only know each other, they would neither idolize nor hate.
Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.

The English also say that they have three variants of weather: when it rains in the morning, when it rains in the afternoon or when in rains all day long. Sometimes it rains so heavily that they say "It's raining cats and dogs".

Newspapermen learn to call a murderer 'an alleged murderer' and the King of England 'the alleged King of England' to avoid libel suits.
There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.
Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.
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.
The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
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.

Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that you live, if you do.

Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.
Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.
Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
How we remember, what we remember and why we remember form the most personal map of our individuality.
Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.
Learning to live in the present moment is part of the path of joy.
It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.

People will buy anything that is one to a customer.

I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
Worries go down better with soup than without.
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.
Write a wise saying and your name will live forever.
The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
More bodies were roughly shoved in beside me.
I must create a system, or be enslaved by another man's.

Worshippers of Artemis, godess of the moon and hunting, used to place honey cakes on the altars of her temples on her birthday.

Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.
There is an alchemy in sorrow. It can be transmuted into wisdom, which, if it does not bring joy, can yet bring happiness.
Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards.
Where we have strong emotions, we're liable to fool ourselves.
Health consists of having the same diseases as one's neighbors.
Sorrow was like the wind. It came in gusts.
He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.

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

Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.
Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.
The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
Nothing is so good for an ignorant man as silence; and if he was sensible of this he would not be ignorant.
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.
If you want to be respected, you must respect yourself.

Having thought carefully about the sort of person you are, try to work out a realistic set pf occupational requirment.

Up ahead, I saw someone, a middle-aged lady in a hippie dress, falter and fall.
When I came back to Dublin I was courtmartialed in my absence and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.
You don't have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces - just good food from fresh ingredients.
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
Hares can gambol over the body of a dead lion.
It is never too late to give up our prejudices.
There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.

četvrtak, 07.10.2010.

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

Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.
I had no idea how much of this was making it through the muffling bag.
A hypocrite is a person who--but who isn't?
Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.
As I get older, I've learned to listen to people rather than accuse them of things.
She got her looks from her father. He's a plastic surgeon.
Obscurity is a good thing. You can fail in obscurity. It removes the fear of failure.

The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star.

We may not imagine how our lives could be more frustrating and complex--but Congress can.
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.
A man is too apt to forget that in this world he cannot have everything. A choice is all that is left him.
It's a dangerous business going out your front door.
Is there life before death?
To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.
Humor is also a way of saying something serious.

British cinema-goers see mainly English and American films, though many of the foreign films are often shown in London and in the South of the country.

A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.
When I came back to Dublin I was courtmartialed in my absence and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.
We need anything politically important rationed out like Pez: small, sweet, and coming out of a funny, plastic head.
It is my hope that I can assist you in getting here too.
All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance.
Learning to live in the present moment is part of the path of joy.

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

Time is that quality of nature which keeps events from happening all at once. Lately it doesn't seem to be working.
There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.
Better shun the bait, than struggle in the snare.
Howard Hughes was able to afford the luxury of madness, like a man who not only thinks he is Napoleon but hires an army to prove it.
I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
Be thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till all commend.
I used to think that the brain was the most wonderful organ in my body. Then I realized who was telling me this.

Also it is very important for our health.

Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that of another.
It was enough to make a body ashamed of the human race.
My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
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 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.
It had only one fault. It was kind of lousy.
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.

Everybody enjoys the cloudless sky and bright sun.

I don't think about risks much. I just do what I want to do. If you gotta go, you gotta go.
Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life.
My home is not a place, it is people.
To be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?
The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.
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 art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving on.

Let not the sands of time get in your lunch.
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.
I don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is a language I don't understand.
My friend is one... who take me for what I am.
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.
A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top .
Peace is when time doesn't matter as it passes by.

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

Intimacy is what makes a marriage, not a ceremony, not a piece of paper from the state.
The best of us must sometimes eat our words.
After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.
Fig Newton: The force required to accelerate a fig 39.37 inches per sec.
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.
It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.
I nearly fell again, but new hands grabbed me from in front and dragged me down a steel floor and then forced me to my knees and locked my hands to something behind me.

A man is too apt to forget that in this world he cannot have everything. A choice is all that is left him.

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.
A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory.
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.
Good breeding consists of concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.
It was a military-looking Jeep, like an armored Hummer, only it didn't have any military insignia on it.
Learning to live in the present moment is part of the path of joy.
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.

srijeda, 06.10.2010.

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

How we remember, what we remember and why we remember form the most personal map of our individuality.
Keep true to the dreams of thy youth.
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.
Nothing is so good for an ignorant man as silence; and if he was sensible of this he would not be ignorant.
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.
Speak when you are angry--and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret.
I sent the club a wire stating, PLEASE ACCEPT MY RESIGNATION. I DON'T WANT TO BELONG TO ANY CLUB THAT WILL ACCEPT ME AS A MEMBER.

The party's national organization was perfected at Pittsburgh in Feb., 1856, and its first presidential candidate, John C. Fremont , made a creditable showing against victorious James Buchanan.

The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.
I shouted, and earned a hard thump on my head for my trouble.
Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose.
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.
A hobby a day keeps the doldrums away.
When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.
The average person thinks he isn't.

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

You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play.
Students achieving Oneness will move on to Twoness.
There are always survivors at a massacre. Among the victors, if nowhere else.
He who boasts of his ancestry is praising the deeds of another.
We are able to laugh when we achieve detachment, if only for a moment.
Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.
He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.

The traditional english dinner on cristmas is turkey and pudding.

We succeed only as we identify in life, or in war, or in anything else, a single overriding objective, and make all other considerations bend to that one objective.
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.
Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
Art is science made clear.
Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.
You should not live one way in private, another in public.
I went up the stairs cautiously, not able to use my hands.

For example, do you want to live in the country or in the town?

Fall is my favorite season in Los Angeles, watching the birds change color and fall from the trees.
You create your opportunities by asking for them.
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.
Early morning cheerfulness can be extremely obnoxious.
O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.
The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.

The availability and accessibility of alcohol may influence employee drinking.

I don't like composers who think. It gets in the way of their plagiarism.
If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.
In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the next meal would come from.
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.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
You never find yourself until you face the truth.

Keep cool and you command everybody.

O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.
Most of the basic truths of life sound absurd at first hearing.
A poem is no place for an idea.
The habit of giving only enhances the desire to give.
Bear in mind that you should conduct yourself in life as at a feast.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.
I guess we'd be living in a boring, perfect world if everybody wished everybody else well.

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.

The summer night is like a perfection of thought.
Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinions at all.
I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.
I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.
If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.
Late to bed and late to wake will keep you long on money and short on mistakes.
The faceless, eyeless armed man above me kept his gun very level.

Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.

Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.
Write a wise saying and your name will live forever.
It's all right to have butterflies in your stomach. Just get them to fly in formation.
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.
Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.
Facts are the enemy of truth.
The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.

A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.

We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.
Write a wise saying and your name will live forever.
By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.
Sometimes you can't see yourself clearly until you see yourself through the eyes of others.
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.
Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives.
I must create a system, or be enslaved by another man's.

Australia seems to me and other people to be the upside-down world.

I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.
The scornful nostril and the high head gather not the odors that lie on the track of truth.
If there's one thing I know it's God does love a good joke.
Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
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.
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
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!

The reader has to solve the mystery and decide who the murderer is hand-in-hand with the author.

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.
Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.
Sometimes the cure for restlessness is rest.
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.
Having a holiday weekend without a family member felt like putting on a sweater that had an extra arm.
I'm moving, but don't worry! Someone once told me we're all on the same planet, so I'll be okay!

Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the game, and dumb enough to think it's important.

Most of the basic truths of life sound absurd at first hearing.
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.
To do anything truly worth doing, I must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in with gusto and scramble through as well as I can.
A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.
We rocked to a stop still on a downslope.
Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.

History is more or less bunk.

An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.
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.
When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest.
Peace is when time doesn't matter as it passes by.
The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.
Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the game, and dumb enough to think it's important.
The undertaking of a new action brings new strength.

In 1952, the more liberal element among the Republicans was able to deny the conservatives' choice, Robert A.

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.
Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
Obscurity is a good thing. You can fail in obscurity. It removes the fear of failure.
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
I stumbled some, then a hand pushed my head down and I was inside the Hummer.
When all is said and done, the weather and love are the two elements about which one can never be sure.
Use what you have to run toward your best - that's how I now live my life.

There are, for example, the Blue Mountains.

To do anything truly worth doing, I must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in with gusto and scramble through as well as I can.
After all it is those who have a deep and real inner life who are best able to deal with the irritating details of outer life.
We can be sure that the greatest hope for maintaining equilibrium in the face of any situation rests within ourselves.
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.
As long as you derive inner help and comfort from anything, keep it.
There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?
As I neared her, I bent to help her up, and was nearly knocked over her.

I hope that when I die, people say about me, 'Boy, that guy sure owed me a lot of money.'

They can conquer who believe they can.
Somebody has to do something, and it's just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.
Our patience will achieve more than our force.
Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid.
Art is either plagiarism or revolution.
If you don't know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else.
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.

utorak, 05.10.2010.

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.

When you have got an elephant by the hind leg, and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.
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.
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.
By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd be grown up.
Get pleasure out of life...as much as you can. Nobody ever died from pleasure.
After all it is those who have a deep and real inner life who are best able to deal with the irritating details of outer life.
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.

Go often to the house of thy friend; for weeds soon choke up the unused path.

Memory feeds imagination.
Newspapermen learn to call a murderer 'an alleged murderer' and the King of England 'the alleged King of England' to avoid libel suits.
A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a man of wit, and a pebble in the hand of a fool.
Only some people get what they want. Those are the people who show up to get it.
If our early lessons of acceptance were as successful as our early lessons of anger, how much happier we would all be.
Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
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.

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

Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality.
Never be a cynic, even a gentle one. Never help out a sneer, even at the devil.
I think it is good that books still exist, but they do make me sleepy.
History is more or less bunk.
Most advances in science come when a person for one reason or another is forced to change fields.
Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.
I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.

O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.

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.
The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said.
Without the capacity to provide its own information, the mind drifts into randomness.
We rarely think people have good sense unless they agree with us.
Americans are benevolently ignorant about Canada, while Canadians are malevolently well informed about the United States.
As a scientist, I am not sure anymore that life can be reduced to a class struggle, to dialectical materialism, or any set of formulas. Life is spontaneous and it is unpredictable, it is magical. I think that we have struggled so hard with the tangible that we have forgotten the intangible.
Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. And man can be as big as he wants. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.

People are beginning to realise that environmental problems are not somebody else's.

A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them.
Whatever you fear most has no power - it is your fear that has the power.
The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.
There are always survivors at a massacre. Among the victors, if nowhere else.
You can't deny laughter. When it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.
The more freedom we enjoy, the greater the responsibility we bear, toward others as well as ourselves.
If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.

If you are going to live alone, you can prefer a studio to a large apartment.

The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
You couldn't even prove the White House staff sane beyond a reasonable doubt.
There is an alchemy in sorrow. It can be transmuted into wisdom, which, if it does not bring joy, can yet bring happiness.
Doubt 'til thou canst doubt no more...doubt is thought and thought is life. Systems which end doubt are devices for drugging thought.
The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.
Music is essentially useless, as life is.

Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.

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.
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.
A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.
As a scientist, I am not sure anymore that life can be reduced to a class struggle, to dialectical materialism, or any set of formulas. Life is spontaneous and it is unpredictable, it is magical. I think that we have struggled so hard with the tangible that we have forgotten the intangible.
I cried out and my own voice was muffled by the hood.
Health consists of having the same diseases as one's neighbors.
I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.

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

To repeat what others have said, requires education; to challenge it, requires brains.
I sent the club a wire stating, PLEASE ACCEPT MY RESIGNATION. I DON'T WANT TO BELONG TO ANY CLUB THAT WILL ACCEPT ME AS A MEMBER.
If you're trying to take a roomful of people by surprise, it's a lot easier to hit your targets if you don't yell going through the door.
If it weren't for baseball, many kids wouldn't know what a millionaire looked like.
Editor: a person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed.
We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.
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.

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

Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
As I neared her, I bent to help her up, and was nearly knocked over her.
Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.
Be a good listener. Your ears will never get you in trouble.
Even the best of friends need time apart.
When you have got an elephant by the hind leg, and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.

nedjelja, 03.10.2010.

The traditional english dinner on cristmas is turkey and pudding.

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.
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
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.
I don't like composers who think. It gets in the way of their plagiarism.
A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them.
Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others.
It is better to wear out than to rust out.

A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms.

Don't mace him!" I shouted over the din. "You'll get us all too.
Look at all the sentences which seem true and question them.
The great thing about a computer notebook is that no matter how much you stuff into it, it doesn't get bigger or heavier.
Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others.
What makes the engine go? Desire, desire, desire.
I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside 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 car rocked back and forth and tipped uphill.

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.
If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.
Obscurity is a good thing. You can fail in obscurity. It removes the fear of failure.
Talking with you is sort of the conversational equivalent of an out of body experience.
Seize opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind.
Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus, but use all gently. For in the very torrent, tempest, and as I may say, whirlwind of passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance that may give it smoothness.
Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today.

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

Act as if it were impossible to fail.
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.
Maybe they were terrorists!
The better part of valor is discretion, in the which better part I have saved my life.
But be, as you have been, my happiness...
Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half the time.
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.

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

Think of yourself as an incandescent power, illuminated and perhaps forever talked to by God and his messengers.
To do anything truly worth doing, I must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in with gusto and scramble through as well as I can.
By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd be grown up.
An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought.
Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
The 'Net is a waste of time, and that's exactly what's right about it.

The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.

It was a military-looking Jeep, like an armored Hummer, only it didn't have any military insignia on it.
Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.
Early morning cheerfulness can be extremely obnoxious.
What children take from us, they give?We become people who feel more deeply, question more deeply, hurt more deeply, and love more deeply.
An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.
Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.
We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.

Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.

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?
The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value.
Darryl wasn't in good shape -- he was white-faced and panting.
The mellow sweetness of pumpkin pie off a prison spoon is something you will never forget.
He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.
Be a good listener. Your ears will never get you in trouble.
Now is the time for all good men to come to.

I've never quite believed that one chance is all I get.

There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.
I never vote for anyone; I always vote against.
All human situations have their inconveniences. We feel those of the present but neither see nor feel those of the future; and hence we often make troublesome changes without amendment, and frequently for the worse.
Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers.
Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.
The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
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.

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I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.

Why do writers write? Because it isn't there.
Nothing changes your opinion of a friend so surely as success - yours or his.
Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.
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.
He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.
Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge.
Men of genius do not excel in any profession because they labor in it, but they labor in it because they excel.

Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy.

The strongest possible piece of advice I would give any young woman is: Don't screw around, and don't smoke.
We succeed only as we identify in life, or in war, or in anything else, a single overriding objective, and make all other considerations bend to that one objective.
When I was a kid my parents moved a lot, but I always found them.
The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
Nothing can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.
How could you be a Great Man if history brought you no Great Events, or brought you to them at the wrong time, too young, too old?
Speak when you are angry--and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret.

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

He who boasts of his ancestry is praising the deeds of another.
Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
I never know how much of what I say is true.
A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money.
We learn something every day, and lots of times it's that what we learned the day before was wrong.
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.
Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today.

Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.

Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.
True friends are those who really know you but love you anyway.
You should not live one way in private, another in public.
Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.
Talking with you is sort of the conversational equivalent of an out of body experience.
Memory feeds imagination.

As a result, you may feel that to seek help is to admit some type of shameful defect in yourself. In fact, however, alcoholism is a disease that is no more a sign of weakness than is asthma or diabetes.

It is impossible to walk rapidly and be unhappy.
Good taste is the enemy of comedy.
I have very strong feelings about how you lead your life. You always look ahead, you never look back.
An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.
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.
One thing I've learned in all these years is not to make love when you really don't feel it; there's probably nothing worse you can do to yourself than that.
Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

The most beautiful adventures are not those we go to seek.

The older I grow, the less important the comma becomes. Let the reader catch his own breath.
If my mental map was right, we were heading down to Fisherman's Wharf.
He who laughs, lasts!
We learn and grow and are transformed not so much by what we do but by why and how we do it.
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.
I guess we'd be living in a boring, perfect world if everybody wished everybody else well.
A hobby a day keeps the doldrums away.

All the members of our family buy books and read them.

Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone.
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.
If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk?
So little time and so little to do.
A doctor saves lives -- It's up to people to create lives that are worth saving.
We cannot destroy kindred: Our chains stretch a little sometimes, but they never break.
God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.

Answering the following four questions can help you find out.

I kept talking. "Listen -- this is some kind of misunderstanding.
We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
Now we were descending just as steeply.
There is a tragic flaw in our precious Constitution, and I don't know what can be done to fix it. This is it: Only nut cases want to be president.
In an industrial society which confuses work and productivity, the necessity of producing has always been an enemy of the desire to create.
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.
It had only one fault. It was kind of lousy.

The farther north you go, the hotter it gets.

Most of the basic truths of life sound absurd at first hearing.
When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.
She got her looks from her father. He's a plastic surgeon.
Now we were descending just as steeply.
We think in generalities, but we live in detail.
Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.
I don't like composers who think. It gets in the way of their plagiarism.

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

In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.
In the right light, at the right time, everything is extraordinary.
I gathered we were headed over Nob Hill, and from the angle, it seemed we were taking one of the steeper routes.
It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.
Be sincere; be brief; be seated.

I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.

O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.
I am not sincere, even when I say I am 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.
We don't get offered crises, they arrive.
The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.
Like anyone else, there are days I feel beautiful and days I don't, and when I don't, I do something about it.
America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.

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

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.
There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.
Truly great madness cannot be achieved without significant intelligence.
We learn something every day, and lots of times it's that what we learned the day before was wrong.
You freeze where you are, time stops, and your heart thunders in your ears.
Now is the time for all good men to come to.
I think people want their illusions and writers are mostly illusion. When you read their words, you read a flattened, incomplete version of the writer.

How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!

It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.
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.
As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.
Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.
There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.
Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far.
What's another word for Thesaurus?

Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts.

Nothing is impossible. Some things are just less likely than others.
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.
Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
Sometimes love will pick you up by the short hairs...and jerk the heck out of you.
You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
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.

It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.

No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.
Funny business, a woman's career: the things you drop on the way up the ladder so you can move faster. You forget you'll need them again when you get back to being a woman. It's one career all females have in common, whether we like it or not: being a woman.
I was gratified to be able to answer promptly. I said I don't know.
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.
Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.
Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
I have always felt that a politician is to be judged by the animosities he excites among his opponents.

It's better to stay neutral until the moment when you can say for sure that you know this or that person pretty well to say he is a person who deserves (or doesn't deserve) faith, understanding or attention. It's my life motto since I've made such a mista

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.
O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.
Keep cool and you command everybody.
There is surely a piece of divinity in us, something that was before the elements, and owes no homage unto the sun.
Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.
Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch.
The freedom of all is essential to my freedom.

The name was first used by Thomas Jefferson's party, later called the Democratic Republican party or, simply, the Democratic party .

A sympathetic Scot summed it all up very neatly in the remark, "You should make a point of trying every experience once, excepting incest and folk dancing."
The scornful nostril and the high head gather not the odors that lie on the track of truth.
There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
I must create a system, or be enslaved by another man's.
College isn't the place to go for ideas.
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.
Even the fear of death is nothing compared to the fear of not having lived authentically and fully.

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

A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them.
Keep cool and you command everybody.
Nothing is so good for an ignorant man as silence; and if he was sensible of this he would not be ignorant.
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.
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.
I felt the doors open near me, and then saw a confusion of booted feet moving close by.
No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.

I have never seen anything more wonderful.

This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer.
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.
Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.
From the moment I picked up your book until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.
Turn the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles.
By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.
Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.

Hearing voices no one else can hear isn't a good sign, even in the wizarding world.

The Past is to be respected and acknoledged, but not to be worshiped. It is our future in which we will find our greatness.
One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.
Doubt 'til thou canst doubt no more...doubt is thought and thought is life. Systems which end doubt are devices for drugging thought.
I'd never looked down the barrel of a gun before, but everything you've heard about the experience is true.
We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language.
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.
My mother loved children -- she would have given anything if I had been one.

and kind of casks in which they are matured. Irish whiskey resembles

Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.
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.
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.
I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.
Students achieving Oneness will move on to Twoness.
There were millions of ways that the world could kill me.

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

If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.
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.
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.
Equal opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent.
Have you ever observed that we pay much more attention to a wise passage when it is quoted than when we read it in the original author?
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.
The strongest possible piece of advice I would give any young woman is: Don't screw around, and don't smoke.

You don't stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop laughing.

Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.
No one goes there nowadays, it's too crowded.
Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.
It's takin' whatever comes your way, the good AND the bad, that give life flavor. It's all the stuff rolled together that makes life worth livin'.
Joy is prayer - Joy is strength - Joy is love - Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.
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.

Well done is better than well said.

So quick and so fiercely I barely had time to gasp before it was locked on me.
I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
You could get on a boat there, get away. That fit with the terrorism hypothesis.
Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper.
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.
Books...are like lobster shells, we surround ourselves with 'em, then we grow out of 'em and leave 'em behind, as evidence of our earlier stages of development.
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.

Tasmania, the island south of Australia, is small.

Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.
Beware the pull on your heartstrings -- it's often the pursestrings that are actually being reached for.
In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.
All great truths begin as blasphemies.
Fig Newton: The force required to accelerate a fig 39.37 inches per sec.
Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.
The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.

Australia seems to me and other people to be the upside-down world.

The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too.
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.
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.
Men of genius do not excel in any profession because they labor in it, but they labor in it because they excel.
A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.
I feel about airplanes the way I feel about diets. It seems to me they are wonderful things for other people to go on.
Self-importance is our greatest enemy. Think about it - what weakens us is feeling offended by the deeds and misdeeds of our fellowmen. Our self-importance requires that we spend most of our lives offended by someone.

That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.

Having a holiday weekend without a family member felt like putting on a sweater that had an extra arm.
It is my hope that I can assist you in getting here too.
Never be a cynic, even a gentle one. Never help out a sneer, even at the devil.
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.
The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is inefficiency. An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty.
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.
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.

Many families celebrate cristmas day in the open air near the cristmas tree in order to catch the spirit of cristmas.

One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.
No one goes there nowadays, it's too crowded.
Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.
We are able to laugh when we achieve detachment, if only for a moment.
That you may retain your self-respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right, than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong.
My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists.
All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance.

The author idealizes an agricultural country ruled by ideal monarch.

Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
We play the hands of cards life gives us. And the worst hands can make us the best players.
Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.
Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.
Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!
For the night was not impartial. No, the night loved some more than others, served some more than others.

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

Funny business, a woman's career: the things you drop on the way up the ladder so you can move faster. You forget you'll need them again when you get back to being a woman. It's one career all females have in common, whether we like it or not: being a woman.
O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.
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.
The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it.
Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.
The faceless, eyeless armed man above me kept his gun very level.
There?s so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets?

Everybody likes a kidder, but nobody lends him money.

Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, not swallowed.
The pain of making the necessary sacrifices always hurts more than you think it's going to. I know. It sucks. That being said, doing something seriously creative is one of the most amazing experiences one can have, in this or any other lifetime. If you can pull it off, it's worth it. Even if you don't end up pulling it off, you'll learn many incredible, magical, valuable things. It's NOT doing it when you know you full well you HAD the opportunity- that hurts FAR more than any failure.
Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
The only time to buy these is on a day with no 'y' in it.
I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.
My father hated radio and could not wait for television to be invented so he could hate that too.
Most of the basic truths of life sound absurd at first hearing.

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

Someone went upside my head again.
I am not sincere, even when I say I am not.
Be more prompt to go to a friend in adversity than in prosperity.
Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.
A smiling face is half the meal.
Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.

Swift's imagination the bitterness of his satire reach their climax in the third part where he shows the academy of sciences in Laputa (the author touches upon all the existing sciences).

You should not live one way in private, another in public.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
To err is human, but to really foul things up requires a computer.
Oh, I don't blame Congress. If I had $600 billion at my disposal, I'd be irresponsible, too.
The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
Where facts are few, experts are many.

But the greatest disadvantage of living in a farmhouse or in a cottage, in my opinion, is that it takes much time to get to the nearest town, but if you have a car it isn't a problem for you.

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.
I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.
The average person thinks he isn't.
Howard Hughes was able to afford the luxury of madness, like a man who not only thinks he is Napoleon but hires an army to prove it.
In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the next meal would come from.
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.
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.

It can be put aside and taken up again at any moment..

There is no stigma attached to recognizing a bad decision in time to install a better one.
Howard Hughes was able to afford the luxury of madness, like a man who not only thinks he is Napoleon but hires an army to prove it.
That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.
I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.
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.
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.
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.

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

Best wide-angle lens? Two steps backward. Look for the 'ah-ha'.
Nothing is said that has not been said before.
The Americans have need of the telephone, but we do not. We have plenty of messenger boys.
We learn and grow and are transformed not so much by what we do but by why and how we do it.
Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
Be sincere; be brief; be seated.
You can't deny laughter. When it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.

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

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.
Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.
I'd never looked down the barrel of a gun before, but everything you've heard about the experience is true.
Keep cool and you command everybody.
Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.
Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.

Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.

My mother loved children -- she would have given anything if I had been one.
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.
To err is human, but to really foul things up requires a computer.
Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
We rarely think people have good sense unless they agree with us.
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.

Generally belligerent toward the South, the Republicans were regarded by Southerners with mingled hatred and fear as sectional tension increased.

Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.
There is surely a piece of divinity in us, something that was before the elements, and owes no homage unto the sun.
To do anything truly worth doing, I must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in with gusto and scramble through as well as I can.
We bear the world and we make it... There was never a great man who had not a great mother - it is hardly an exaggeration.
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?
You always pass failure on the way to success.
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.

Droughts are rare.

You could get on a boat there, get away. That fit with the terrorism hypothesis.
There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.
Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
Without the capacity to provide its own information, the mind drifts into randomness.
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.'
Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
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.

There is surely a piece of divinity in us, something that was before the elements, and owes no homage unto the sun.

Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.
We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.
How could you be a Great Man if history brought you no Great Events, or brought you to them at the wrong time, too young, too old?
Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.
The roses, the lovely notes, the dining and dancing are all welcome and splendid. But when the Godiva is gone, the gift of real love is having someone who'll go the distance with you. Someone who, when the wedding day limo breaks down, is willing to share a seat on the bus.
We are always in search of the redeeming formula, the crystallizing thought.
A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down.

I was the kid next door's imaginary friend.

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.
The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
Where facts are few, experts are many.
We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.
Art is either plagiarism or revolution.
God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
Rest is the sweet sauce of labor.

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few; and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.

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.
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
Well done is better than well said.
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.
If you don't know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else.
In the right light, at the right time, everything is extraordinary.
Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.

People are beginning to realise that environmental problems are not somebody else's.

Terrorists killed a lot fewer people than bathroom falls and accidental electrocutions.
By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.
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.
Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
Make a decision, even if it's wrong.
Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.

Neither did the cop car that went past, nor the firetruck, nor the next three cop-cars.

As I get older, I've learned to listen to people rather than accuse them of things.
We play the hands of cards life gives us. And the worst hands can make us the best players.
Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.
The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco.
I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.
I had no idea how much of this was making it through the muffling bag.
A chess genius is a human being who focuses vast, little-understood mental gifts and labors on an ultimately trivial human enterprise.

If your health care professional concludes that you may be dependent on alcohol, he or she may recommend that you see a specalist in diagnosing and treating alcoholism.

I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars.
Beware the pull on your heartstrings -- it's often the pursestrings that are actually being reached for.
No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.
What's another word for Thesaurus?
He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.
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.
There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.

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

When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time.
A sympathetic Scot summed it all up very neatly in the remark, "You should make a point of trying every experience once, excepting incest and folk dancing."
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
I like coincidences. They make me wonder about destiny, and whether free will is an illusion or just a matter of perspective. They let me speculate on the idea of some master plan that, from time to time, we're allowed to see out of the corner of our eye.
Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives.
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.
Having a holiday weekend without a family member felt like putting on a sweater that had an extra arm.

Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day, it will make itself felt at the end of the year.

Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today.
Dance is the hidden language of the soul.
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.
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.
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!
Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
The Americans have need of the telephone, but we do not. We have plenty of messenger boys.

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

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.
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.
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
You don't get anything clean without getting something else dirty.
Neither did the cop car that went past, nor the firetruck, nor the next three cop-cars.
Vigorous writing is concise.
I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.

Overpopulation is often defined as the condition of having more people than can live on Earth in comfort, happiness, and health and still leave the planet a fit place for future generations.

What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty.
There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?
When they discover the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to discover they are not it.
Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half the time.
All great truths begin as blasphemies.
There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.
Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.

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

To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all.
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 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.
There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.
Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.
The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.
You could get on a boat there, get away. That fit with the terrorism hypothesis.

Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life.

My theory of evolution is that Darwin was adopted.
Beware the pull on your heartstrings -- it's often the pursestrings that are actually being reached for.
No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.
It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.
Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality.
I am not young enough to know everything.
There is an applause superior to that of the multitudes: one's own.

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 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.
Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to be caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self.
The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.
The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value.
The scornful nostril and the high head gather not the odors that lie on the track of truth.
You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.