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subota, 24.07.2010.

Also it is pleasant to walk when it is not very cold and it snows.

I barely had time to register them before those rifles were pointed at me.
My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists.
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 dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
I guess we'd be living in a boring, perfect world if everybody wished everybody else well.

Art is either plagiarism or revolution.

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 need anything politically important rationed out like Pez: small, sweet, and coming out of a funny, plastic head.
Keep cool and you command everybody.
I shouted, and earned a hard thump on my head for my trouble.
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.
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few; and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.
When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.

Although the Republican party had become a minority in registration, Nixon failed by fewer than 200,000 votes to defeat John F. Kennedy.

We do not believe if we do not live and work according to our belief.
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.
Nothing is as simple as we hope it will be.
What some people mistake for the high cost of living is really the cost of high living.
No one goes there nowadays, it's too crowded.
Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.
He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.

There is an applause superior to that of the multitudes: one's own.

I've been on a diet for two weeks and all I've lost is two weeks.
You always pass failure on the way to success.
Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a man of wit, and a pebble in the hand of a fool.
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.
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 truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.

Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.

There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.
Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.
Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.
You don't stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop laughing.
The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
I wanted to flag you down because my friend was bleeding. Someone stabbed him."

Even the best of friends need time apart.

Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousand of miles and all the years you have lived.
It's a dangerous business going out your front door.
Experience is a good teacher, but she send in terrific bills.
I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate.
By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd be grown up.
It is not enough to aim; you must hit.
It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.

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

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.
Nothing is so awesomely unfamiliar as the familiar that discloses itself at the end of a journey.
Nothing is said that has not been said before.
I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.
Only some people get what they want. Those are the people who show up to get it.
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.
When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers.

In England the cinema is usually called ?the pictures?.

In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.
Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth?Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.
Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
I'd learned my lesson.
No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.
I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.

Laughter is supposed to be the best medicine, however, it should never be at the expense of someone?s feelings or ignoring truth.

I was gratified to be able to answer promptly. I said I don't know.
College isn't the place to go for ideas.
Greatness is more than potential. It is the execution of that potential. Beyond the raw talent. You need the appropriate training. You need the discipline. You need the inspiration. You need the drive.
The summer night is like a perfection of thought.
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.
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 can learn as much - or more - from one glance at a private space as you can from hours of exposure to a public face.

When you are taken away by a thrilling plot and by author's vivid imagination or by his humorous remarks or by the way he portrays people, you can't help reading the book from cover to cover, when the life of a literary character is similar to yours, you

I'm going to stay in show business until I'm the last one left.
Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.
It is hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head.
He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.
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.
We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.

By 1855 the new party was well launched in the North.

The average person thinks he isn't.
Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.
An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought.
I opened my mouth, then shut it, then, very slowly, I held my hands up in front of me.
We all have strength enough to endure the misfortunes of others.
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.
Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.

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.

No.
People will buy anything that is one to a customer.
For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
A rumor without a leg to stand on will get around some other way.
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.
Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less.
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.

Music is essentially useless, as life is.

Nothing is so good for an ignorant man as silence; and if he was sensible of this he would not be ignorant.
Seize opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind.
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.
He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.
When everyone is against you, it means that you are absolutely wrong-- or absolutely right.
The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
The summer night is like a perfection of thought.

According to United Nations Gender Organization data, 67 percent of those unemployed in Russia are women.

I never met anybody who said when they were a kid, "I wanna grow up and be a critic."
When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.
What if this weren't a hypothetical question?
Terrorists killed a lot fewer people than bathroom falls and accidental electrocutions.
Sometimes love will pick you up by the short hairs...and jerk the heck out of you.
The more freedom we enjoy, the greater the responsibility we bear, toward others as well as ourselves.
Up ahead, I saw someone, a middle-aged lady in a hippie dress, falter and fall.

When should a person seek help for a problem related to his or her drinking?

The hands behind me gave me another shove.
Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life.
He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.
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.
The lesson which life repeats and constantly enforces is 'look under foot.' You are always nearer the divine and the true sources of your power than you think.
Sometimes you can't see yourself clearly until you see yourself through the eyes of others.

The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco.

We've got to get my friend to a hospital --"
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.
Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch.
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.
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing 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.
Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.

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

Speak when you are angry--and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret.
Think of life as a terminal illness, because, if you do, you will live it with joy and passion, as it ought to be lived.
The 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.
I went up the stairs cautiously, not able to use my hands.
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!
A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.
There are no wise few. Every aristocracy that has ever existed has behaved, in all essential points, exactly like a small mob.

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?

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.
Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.
I opened my mouth, then shut it, then, very slowly, I held my hands up in front of me.
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.
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 am more and more convinced that our happiness or unhappiness depends more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.
We are what we repeatedly do.

četvrtak, 22.07.2010.

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

Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.
We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.
When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time.
Laughter is supposed to be the best medicine, however, it should never be at the expense of someone?s feelings or ignoring truth.
The engine died and then the doors swung open.
A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top .
Your parents, they give you your life, but then they try to give you their life.

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

It is not much for its beauty that makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanates from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.
You can learn as much - or more - from one glance at a private space as you can from hours of exposure to a public face.
Good breeding consists of concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.
Now is the time for all good men to come to.
I've grown to realize the joy that comes from little victories is preferable to the fun that comes from ease and the pursuit of pleasure.
It's a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn't want to hear.
Have patience awhile; slanders are not long-lived. Truth is the child of time; erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee.

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

Summer afternoon - Summer afternoon... the two most beautiful words in the English language.
There is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income.
Starting with getting run down by a drunk burning his way down Valencia -- that were infinitely more likely and immediate than terrorists.
We are able to laugh when we achieve detachment, if only for a moment.
Each individual woman's body demands to be accepted on its own terms.
Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less.
People fail forward to success.

Because of differing concepts of carrying capacity, however, experts differ widely over what level of population is considered too high.

Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity.
We are made to persist. That's how we find out who we are.
Better shun the bait, than struggle in the snare.
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.
Well done is better than well said.
Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.

Confidence is the sexiest thing a woman can have. It's much sexier than any body part.

Let me tell you, quite frankly, it took a while and a lot of therapy to get here.
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'.
Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.
A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms.
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.
It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.
The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too.

I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.

Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.
Whatever you do, do it to the purpose; do it thoroughly, not superficially. Go to the bottom of things. Any thing half done, or half known, is in my mind, neither done nor known at all. Nay, worse, for it often misleads.
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.
We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language.
The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco.
The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
What's the earth With all its art, verse, music, worth - Compared with love, found, gained, and kept?

It was enough to make a body ashamed of the human race.

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.
If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play at it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf.
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
I am not sincere, even when I say I am not.
Act as if it were impossible to fail.
It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.

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

Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.
We are what we repeatedly do.
There is an applause superior to that of the multitudes: one's own.
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.
Is there life before death?
O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.
The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.

I used to think that the brain was the most wonderful organ in my body. Then I realized who was telling me this.

It was enough to make a body ashamed of the human race.
Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.
Shake off all the fears of servile prejudices, under which weak minds are servilely crouched. Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call on her tribunal for every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear.
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.
What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?
I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.

Bush was generally recognized as strong on foreign policy.

Never make a defense or an apology until you are accused.
At the mention of the word mace, the guy looked scared and kind of melted back, though the crowd kept him moving forward.
Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.
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.
When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time.
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.

You never know how a horse will pull until you hook him up to a heavy load.

His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even... knowledge, was foolproof.
Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it.
It is hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head.
All programmers are playwrights and all computers are lousy actors.
Have patience awhile; slanders are not long-lived. Truth is the child of time; erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee.
We can be sure that the greatest hope for maintaining equilibrium in the face of any situation rests within ourselves.
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.

Darryl wasn't in good shape -- he was white-faced and panting.

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 is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.
All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.
A moment later, I caught my breath, but I didn't say anything.
Each body has its art...
Write a wise saying and your name will live forever.
Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.

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

Summer afternoon - Summer afternoon... the two most beautiful words in the English language.
I guess we'd be living in a boring, perfect world if everybody wished everybody else well.
Order is not pressure which is imposed on society from without, but an equilibrium which is set up from within.
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say.
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?
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.

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

The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
You couldn't even prove the White House staff sane beyond a reasonable doubt.
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.
Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up.
We cannot deny the facts of nature, but we should certainly try to improve on them.
Order is not pressure which is imposed on society from without, but an equilibrium which is set up from within.
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.

Now I like to read books on science.

As I neared her, I bent to help her up, and was nearly knocked over her.
All movements go too far.
Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid.
There are a terrible lot of lies going around the world, and the worst of it is half of them are true.
I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.
I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.
It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

You should be involved in making referral decisions and have all treatment choices explained to you.

Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousand of miles and all the years you have lived.
I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.
We learn and grow and are transformed not so much by what we do but by why and how we do it.
All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.
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 was sick of cars driving right past me.
Be thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till all commend.

A less clearly developed corollary of academic freedom is the obligation of all those who enjoy it to pursue the line of open and thorough inquiry regardless of personal considerations.

You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.
No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.
A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of.
There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.
You could get on a boat there, get away. That fit with the terrorism hypothesis.
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 often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.

utorak, 20.07.2010.

I despise the pleasure of pleasing people that I despise.

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.
We are made to persist. That's how we find out who we are.
My father hated radio and could not wait for television to be invented so he could hate that too.
Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself...True happiness is born of self-reliance.
When all is said and done, the weather and love are the two elements about which one can never be sure.
Truly great madness cannot be achieved without significant intelligence.
People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.

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

All movements go too far.
Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.
For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
I wanted to flag you down because my friend was bleeding. Someone stabbed him."
It was enough to make a body ashamed of the human race.
I've grown to realize the joy that comes from little victories is preferable to the fun that comes from ease and the pursuit of pleasure.
Our lives teach us who we are.

The undertaking of a new action brings new strength.

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.
'Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.' Under the influence of this pestilent morality, I am forever letting tomorrow's work slop backwards into today's, and doing painfully and nervously today what I could do quickly and easily tomorrow.
It is hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head.
I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars.
The most erroneous stories are those we think we know best - and therefore never scrutinize or question.
My home is not a place, it is people.
We cannot destroy kindred: Our chains stretch a little sometimes, but they never break.

Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.

You cannot be mad at somebody who makes you laugh - it's as simple as that.
As I get older, I've learned to listen to people rather than accuse them of things.
Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.
If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
I barely had time to register them before those rifles were pointed at me.
Good breeding consists of concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.
It is better to wear out than to rust out.

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.

You have no control over what the other guy does. You only have control over what you do.
I never know how much of what I say is true.
Money doesn't always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are no happier than people with nine million dollars.
We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.
Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
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.

I love every corner and every thing in my flat.

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.
The only difference between a rut and a grave... is in their dimensions.
We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language.
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.
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.
Money frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy.
The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.

Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack.

To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.
The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.
Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law?
Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards.
Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.
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.
Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.

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

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.
It had only one fault. It was kind of lousy.
The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.
He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.
We are what we repeatedly do.
I lived what most people call the good life. I was happy, but deep inside I always felt that, with the short amount of time we are given to live and love in this world, we spend too much time loving things instead of people.
You don't get anything clean without getting something else dirty.

Although a separate ticket headed by the radical Fremont withdrew before the election in 1864, the cleavage within the party between radicals and moderates widened as the war progressed. Radicals such as Benjamin F. Wade , Henry W. Davis , Thaddeus Steven

There is surely a piece of divinity in us, something that was before the elements, and owes no homage unto the sun.
It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.
Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing 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.
The best way out is always through.
Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.
You should not live one way in private, another in public.

When you have got an elephant by the hind leg, and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.

Learning to live in the present moment is part of the path of joy.
I don't like composers who think. It gets in the way of their plagiarism.
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.
Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.
Truth has beauty, power and necessity.
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 me tell you, quite frankly, it took a while and a lot of therapy to get here.

Regular reading enriches your knowledge of the world and helps to form your entire personality.

Intimacy is what makes a marriage, not a ceremony, not a piece of paper from the state.
True friends are those who really know you but love you anyway.
An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.
We all have strength enough to endure the misfortunes of others.
There is an applause superior to that of the multitudes: one's own.
I opened my mouth, then shut it, then, very slowly, I held my hands up in front of me.
Neither did the cop car that went past, nor the firetruck, nor the next three cop-cars.

A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead. A man with ambition and love for his blessings here on earth is ever so alive. Having been alive, it won't be so hard in the end to lie down and rest.

The strongest possible piece of advice I would give any young woman is: Don't screw around, and don't smoke.
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.
A moment later, I caught my breath, but I didn't say anything.
History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind.
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.
We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe.
The car slewed to a stop and only then did I notice that it wasn't a cop car, ambulance or fire-engine.

In England the cinema is usually called ?the pictures?.

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?
Censorship, like charity, should begin at home; but, unlike charity, it should end there.
Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.
There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.
There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.
Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.

Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.

There isn?t much better in this life than finding a way to spend a few hours in conversation with people you respect and love. You have to carve this time out of your life because you aren?t really living without it.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
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.
What's the earth With all its art, verse, music, worth - Compared with love, found, gained, and kept?
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.
I've grown to realize the joy that comes from little victories is preferable to the fun that comes from ease and the pursuit of pleasure.
The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.

While on shore Gulliver is captured by the giants.

Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.
When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.
I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
Even the best of friends need time apart.
The 'Net is a waste of time, and that's exactly what's right about it.
The only time to buy these is on a day with no 'y' in it.

More bodies were roughly shoved in beside me.

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.
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.
You need only claim the event of your life to make yourself yours. When you truly possess all you have been and done, which may take some time, you are fierce with reality.
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.
God creates men, but they choose each other.
The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke.

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

Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose.
A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top .
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.
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.
My eyes swam and watered and I literally couldn't breathe through the pain.
Feet, why do I need them if I have wings to fly?
It's very hard to take yourself too seriously when you look at the world from outer space.

ponedjeljak, 19.07.2010.

You're dealing with the demon of external validation. You can't beat external validation. You want to know why? Because it feels sooo good.

The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.
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.
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.
We play the hands of cards life gives us. And the worst hands can make us the best players.
Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far.
There is an alchemy in sorrow. It can be transmuted into wisdom, which, if it does not bring joy, can yet bring happiness.
The summer night is like a perfection of thought.

It tells of the adventures of ship surgeon, as related by himself and divided into four parts of four voyages: 1. A voyage to Liliput. 2. A voyage to Brobdignag. 3. A voyage to Laputa. 4. A voyage to the country of Houyhnhnms.

Vegetarianism is harmless enough, though it is apt to fill a man with wind and self-righteousness.
My home is not a place, it is people.
If men could only know each other, they would neither idolize nor hate.
Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
A few seconds later, I tripped over a steel staircase, bashing my shins.

Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.

All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.
Play: Work that you enjoy doing for nothing.
If your parents never had children, chances are you won't, either.
Assuming either the Left Wing or the Right Wing gained control of the country, it would probably fly around in circles.
It was enough to make a body ashamed of the human race.
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.
I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty... But I am too busy thinking about myself.

Always after a hard day I return home and think "At last I came home". For me there is no place like home.

The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco.
Life is consciousness.
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.
I shouted, and earned a hard thump on my head for my trouble.
Walking is man's best medicine.
A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down.
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!'

In addition, supervisors were under constant pressure to keep production moving and were motivated to discipline employees for drinking only if the drinking was compromising production or jeopardizing safety. Workers' knowledge that policies were rarely e

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 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.
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.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
Keep cool and you command everybody.
I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education.
The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.

In an industrial society which confuses work and productivity, the necessity of producing has always been an enemy of the desire to create.

When you close your doors, and make darkness within, remember never to say that you are alone, for you are not alone; nay, God is within, and your genius is within. And what need have they of light to see what you are doing?
A joke's a very serious thing.
I despise the pleasure of pleasing people that I despise.
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.
Hearing voices no one else can hear isn't a good sign, even in the wizarding world.
Winning is important to me, but what brings me real joy is the experience of being fully engaged in whatever I'm doing.
Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.

petak, 16.07.2010.

Too many people start looking for a specific job before thinking out their occupational aims.

Only some people get what they want. Those are the people who show up to get it.
Shake off all the fears of servile prejudices, under which weak minds are servilely crouched. Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call on her tribunal for every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear.
The 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.
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?
Never make a defense or an apology until you are accused.
Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law?
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.

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

As I get older, I've learned to listen to people rather than accuse them of things.
In an industrial society which confuses work and productivity, the necessity of producing has always been an enemy of the desire to create.
Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.
Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less.
Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, not swallowed.
There is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income.
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.

And as you have a neighbour you can always turn to him if you need something, though from time to time your neighbour can disturb you when he repairs his part of the house or listens to music too loudly.

As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
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.
Typos are very important to all written form. It gives the reader something to look for so they aren't distracted by the total lack of content in your writing.
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
The most erroneous stories are those we think we know best - and therefore never scrutinize or question.
The strongest possible piece of advice I would give any young woman is: Don't screw around, and don't smoke.

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.

Never be a cynic, even a gentle one. Never help out a sneer, even at the devil.
Look at all the sentences which seem true and question them.
It is better to wear out than to rust out.
You have no control over what the other guy does. You only have control over what you do.
Be honorable yourself if you wish to associate with honorable people.
Students achieving Oneness will move on to Twoness.
What children take from us, they give?We become people who feel more deeply, question more deeply, hurt more deeply, and love more deeply.

It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.

The car slewed to a stop and only then did I notice that it wasn't a cop car, ambulance or fire-engine.
Make a decision, even if it's wrong.
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.
Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.
All things are difficult before they are easy.
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.

Their numerous facilities include both: large and small cocktail barber's shops and conference halls, equipped with simultaneous, multilingual translation systems.

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.'
If you refuse to be made straight when you are green, you will not be made straight when you are dry.
An idea is salvation by imagination.
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.
You create your opportunities by asking for them.
There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers.
I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters.

In the cultivated areas that make up most of Britain there are many wild flowers, flowering plants and grasses.

If your parents never had children, chances are you won't, either.
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.
There is an applause superior to that of the multitudes: one's own.
Be more prompt to go to a friend in adversity than in prosperity.
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.
If there's one thing I know it's God does love a good joke.
The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.

Memory feeds imagination.

Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinions at all.
Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid.
I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate.
You freeze where you are, time stops, and your heart thunders in your ears.
The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
When we got into office, the thing that surprised me the most was that things were as bad as we'd been saying they were.
I 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!

srijeda, 14.07.2010.

In these postwar elections, the party, always supported by the Grand Army of the Republic , denounced all Democrats as former Copperheads and claimed to have alone saved the Union.

There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
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.
What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty.
Seize opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind.
The scornful nostril and the high head gather not the odors that lie on the track of truth.
Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.

When, in 1896, the Democratic party was captured by the radicals under William Jennings Bryan , its presidential candidate in 1896, 1900, and 1908, the Republican party became openly the champion of the gold standard and conservative economic doctrines.

Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.
Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.
No.
I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.

As for me, I have made up my mind to be an engineer.

The average person thinks he isn't.
Without the capacity to provide its own information, the mind drifts into randomness.
Worries go down better with soup than without.
You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.
Paradise is exactly like where you are right now... only much, much better.
I am more and more convinced that our happiness or unhappiness depends more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.
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.

Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.

As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.
Better shun the bait, than struggle in the snare.
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.
Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.
I feel about airplanes the way I feel about diets. It seems to me they are wonderful things for other people to go on.
Whenever evil befalls us, we ought to ask ourselves, after the first suffering, how we can turn it into good. So shall we take occasion, from one bitter root, to raise perhaps many flowers.

The business center of New York is near Wall Street.

An idea is salvation by imagination.
Feet, why do I need them if I have wings to fly?
The older I grow, the less important the comma becomes. Let the reader catch his own breath.
Hares can gambol over the body of a dead lion.
The faceless, eyeless armed man above me kept his gun very level.
The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.
When someone does something good, applaud! You will make two people happy.

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.

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.
He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.
By prizing heartfulness above faultlessness, we may reap more from our effort because we're more likely to be changed by it.
He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.
Newspapermen learn to call a murderer 'an alleged murderer' and the King of England 'the alleged King of England' to avoid libel suits.
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.
Time is that quality of nature which keeps events from happening all at once. Lately it doesn't seem to be working.

I seemed to share this attitude with the most other people in Britain.

Love truth, and pardon error.
You can only cure retail but you can prevent .
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.
The summer night is like a perfection of thought.
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!
Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less.
Peace is when time doesn't matter as it passes by.

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

If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.
We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.
O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.
I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
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.
Starting with getting run down by a drunk burning his way down Valencia -- that were infinitely more likely and immediate than terrorists.
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.

I had no idea how much of this was making it through the muffling bag.

There is no nonsense so errant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action.
Winning is important to me, but what brings me real joy is the experience of being fully engaged in whatever I'm doing.
Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnecessary.
Be more prompt to go to a friend in adversity than in prosperity.

utorak, 13.07.2010.

Regular reading enriches your knowledge of the world and helps to form your entire personality.

Nothing is so good for an ignorant man as silence; and if he was sensible of this he would not be ignorant.
If God had wanted us to vote, he would have given us candidates.
Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality.
Turn the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles.
Who were these clowns?
The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.
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.

An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought.

Look at all the sentences which seem true and question them.
A neurosis is a secret that you don't know you are keeping.
Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it.
Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.
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.
I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
When they discover the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to discover they are not it.

The first vehicle that screamed past -- an ambulance -- didn't even slow down.

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.
Electricity is actually made up of extremely tiny particles called electrons, that you cannot see with the naked eye unless you have been drinking.
Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.
Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.
Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke.
We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe.
The freedom of all is essential to my freedom.

Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth?Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.

It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
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.
An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought.
When someone does something good, applaud! You will make two people happy.
You always pass failure on the way to success.

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

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.
The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it.
Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less.
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.
Keep cool and you command everybody.
I don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is a language I don't understand.
The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.

For example, it is much better to eat an apple or a banana than to eat a double hamburger with ketchup and mayonnaise.

Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to be caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self.
The two symbols of the Republican Party: an elephant, and a big fat white guy who is threatened by change.
The great thing about a computer notebook is that no matter how much you stuff into it, it doesn't get bigger or heavier.
An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.
The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
Sometimes love will pick you up by the short hairs...and jerk the heck out of you.
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.

Such people see only dark sides in everything and it prevents them from being happy. But look at other people!

The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis.
I'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.
I've grown to realize the joy that comes from little victories is preferable to the fun that comes from ease and the pursuit of pleasure.
I lived what most people call the good life. I was happy, but deep inside I always felt that, with the short amount of time we are given to live and love in this world, we spend too much time loving things instead of people.
Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives.
What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say.

To try to be better is to be better.

Use what you have to run toward your best - that's how I now live my life.
There is no nonsense so errant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action.
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.
Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.
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.
I have a simple philosophy. Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. And scratch where it itches.
Music is essentially useless, as life is.

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

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.
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.
Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.
Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.
Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.
What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!

The 1996 elections saw incumbents generally retain their offices.

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.
The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco.
Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
Oh, I don't blame Congress. If I had $600 billion at my disposal, I'd be irresponsible, too.
How to Raise your I.Q. by Eating Gifted Children
I'm moving, but don't worry! Someone once told me we're all on the same planet, so I'll be okay!
So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.

The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.

My friend is one... who take me for what I am.
Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that you live, if you do.
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.
It's the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion.
I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.
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.
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.

So I'm interested in different kinds of books.

People will buy anything that is one to a customer.
Don't mace him!" I shouted over the din. "You'll get us all too.
Walking is man's best medicine.
It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't.
We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe.
Sometimes love will pick you up by the short hairs...and jerk the heck out of you.
Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.

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.

We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.
The only time to buy these is on a day with no 'y' in it.
It's important to begin a search on a full stomach.
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?
You don't have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces - just good food from fresh ingredients.
It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.
The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.

Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack.

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.
You can't deny laughter. When it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.
Electricity is actually made up of extremely tiny particles called electrons, that you cannot see with the naked eye unless you have been drinking.
I have always felt that a politician is to be judged by the animosities he excites among his opponents.
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.
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.
History is more or less bunk.

Nothing in the world can take the place of Persistence.

Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education.
I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.
All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.
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.'
There are a terrible lot of lies going around the world, and the worst of it is half of them are true.
What children take from us, they give?We become people who feel more deeply, question more deeply, hurt more deeply, and love more deeply.

In fact, it?s the best known place in Australia.

Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others.
Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
I?m telling you, things are getting out of hand. Or maybe I?m discovering that things were never in my hands.
Electricity is actually made up of extremely tiny particles called electrons, that you cannot see with the naked eye unless you have been drinking.
Feet, why do I need them if I have wings to fly?
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.
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.

I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters.

When I was a kid my parents moved a lot, but I always found them.
An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
Feet, why do I need them if I have wings to fly?
There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.
Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the next meal would come from.

ponedjeljak, 12.07.2010.

The room is always filled with the sounds of music.

I'd never really believed in terrorists before.
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer.
Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.
By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd be grown up.
The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too.
Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.

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

The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
The great art of giving consists in this: the gift should cost very little and yet be greatly coveted, so that it may be the more highly appreciated.
I 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.
I write because I'm afraid to say some things out loud.
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.'
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.
Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper.

Every year, thousands of tourists visit Ayers Rock and a strange group of huge red stones called ?the Olgas?.

Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.
If my mental map was right, we were heading down to Fisherman's Wharf.
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.
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
Nothing changes your opinion of a friend so surely as success - yours or his.
Life is consciousness.
By learning to discover and value our ordinariness, we nurture a friendliness toward ourselves and the world that is the essence of a healthy soul.

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

Money doesn't always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are no happier than people with nine million dollars.
Students achieving Oneness will move on to Twoness.
Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards.
I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!
You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
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.
So little time and so little to do.

Whatever you do, do it to the purpose; do it thoroughly, not superficially. Go to the bottom of things. Any thing half done, or half known, is in my mind, neither done nor known at all. Nay, worse, for it often misleads.

Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
Statistics: The only science that enables different experts using the same figures to draw different conclusions.
My home is not a place, it is people.
It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.
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.
Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.

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

If my mental map was right, we were heading down to Fisherman's Wharf.
Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
Never make a defense or an apology until you are accused.
Intimacy is what makes a marriage, not a ceremony, not a piece of paper from the state.
So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.
I didn't even breathe.
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.

I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.

The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself.
People will buy anything that is one to a customer.
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 imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.
To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level.
All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.
When someone does something good, applaud! You will make two people happy.

Nothing can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.

Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.
Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain.
But be, as you have been, my happiness...
It?s like your batteries get low, and you need to charge them on someone else?s story.
Someone dragged me by my arms out onto the road, then shoved me, stumbling, down a paved road.
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.
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.

Sometimes you can depend on your neighbours - imagine such a situation: your neighbours' tap is dripping and they need it to be repaired, so they block the water supply not only in their own flat but also in yours and you have to wait for hours till you c

A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.
As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
Censorship, like charity, should begin at home; but, unlike charity, it should end there.
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's all right to have butterflies in your stomach. Just get them to fly in formation.
That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.
A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down.

Because the involvement of family members is important to the recovery process, many programs also offer brief marital counseling and family therapy as part of the treatment process.

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.
Dance is the hidden language of the soul.
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.
The crowd gives the leader new strength.
I'm moving, but don't worry! Someone once told me we're all on the same planet, so I'll be okay!
Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.

They believe, however, that adding several hundred million more people in MDCs and several billion more in LDSs ( less developed countries) will intensify many environmental and social problems by increasing resource use and waste, environmental degradat

Each individual woman's body demands to be accepted on its own terms.
We think in generalities, but we live in detail.
Dance is the hidden language of the soul.
Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.
The only difference between a rut and a grave... is in their dimensions.
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.
The best of us must sometimes eat our words.

The morning may be warm and the evening may be cool.

Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
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.
Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable.
Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anyone else.
Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.

Never let the demands of tomorrow interfere with the pleasures and excitement of today.

Statistics: The only science that enables different experts using the same figures to draw different conclusions.
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.
If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.
Better by far you should forget and smile than you should remember and be sad.
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.
All movements go too far.
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.

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

Walking is man's best medicine.
People will buy anything that is one to a customer.
The average person thinks he isn't.
But be, as you have been, my happiness...
Get pleasure out of life...as much as you can. Nobody ever died from pleasure.
Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.
Anger is never without Reason, but seldom with a good One.

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.

The world tolerates conceit from those who are successful, but not from anybody else.
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.
If you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome; if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent; if you believe the military, nothing is safe.
Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you.
Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
Winning is important to me, but what brings me real joy is the experience of being fully engaged in whatever I'm doing.
I'm moving, but don't worry! Someone once told me we're all on the same planet, so I'll be okay!

I am sure that books play a very important role in my life.

America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.
What some people mistake for the high cost of living is really the cost of high living.
Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.
Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today.
When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers.
I must create a system, or be enslaved by another man's.
When all is said and done, the weather and love are the two elements about which one can never be sure.

It is often cold.

The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all of your time.
Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
I've been on a diet for two weeks and all I've lost is two weeks.
Normal is not something to aspire to, it's something to get away from.
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
You could get on a boat there, get away. That fit with the terrorism hypothesis.

subota, 10.07.2010.

Choosing a career is like any other activity; it is best to work to a plan.

Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.
I'm moving, but don't worry! Someone once told me we're all on the same planet, so I'll be okay!
Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.
It's never just a game when you're winning.
I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.
The habit of giving only enhances the desire to give.
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 party, however, suffered a series of massive setbacks with the resignation of Vice President Spiro Agnew upon his conviction for tax evasion and revelations of major White House involvement in the Watergate affair, which led finally to the resignation

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.
To err is human, but to really foul things up requires a computer.
We may not imagine how our lives could be more frustrating and complex--but Congress can.
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.
By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd be grown up.
Do not envy a sinner; you don't know what disaster awaits him.
Censorship, like charity, should begin at home; but, unlike charity, it should end there.

Alcohol Policies.

My wish is to ride the tempest, tame the waves, kill the sharks. I will not resign myself...
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.
Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
You have to recognize when the right place and the right time fuse and take advantage of that opportunity. There are plenty of opportunities out there. You can't sit back and wait.
You cannot be mad at somebody who makes you laugh - it's as simple as that.
A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.

What if this weren't a hypothetical question?

Never make a defense or an apology until you are accused.
A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.
Hollywood is a place where they place you under contract instead of under observation.
A doctor saves lives -- It's up to people to create lives that are worth saving.
Seize opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind.
Art is science made clear.
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.

You can learn many things from books.

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.
There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers.
Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law?
I'm moving, but don't worry! Someone once told me we're all on the same planet, so I'll be okay!
I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
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.
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?

Peace is when time doesn't matter as it passes by.

Worrying about them always struck me as about as useful as worrying about getting hit by lightning.
What makes the engine go? Desire, desire, desire.
A man is too apt to forget that in this world he cannot have everything. A choice is all that is left him.
A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play at it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf.
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.
You never find yourself until you face the truth.

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

The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco.
Best wide-angle lens? Two steps backward. Look for the 'ah-ha'.
I shouted, and earned a hard thump on my head for my trouble.
Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
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.
The average person thinks he isn't.

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

I was gratified to be able to answer promptly. I said I don't know.
You could get on a boat there, get away. That fit with the terrorism hypothesis.
It is not enough to aim; you must hit.
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.
The world tolerates conceit from those who are successful, but not from anybody else.
A few seconds later, I tripped over a steel staircase, bashing my shins.
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.

So, we may say that the British climate has three main features: it is mild, humid and changeable.

Censorship, like charity, should begin at home; but, unlike charity, it should end there.
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.
The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.
There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.
Hope is tomorrow's veneer over today's disappointment.
At the mention of the word mace, the guy looked scared and kind of melted back, though the crowd kept him moving forward.
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.

The national museum, the old and new national galleries of art, Washington, Jefferson and Lincoln memorials are among the city sites.

There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
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.
I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
Up ahead, I saw someone, a middle-aged lady in a hippie dress, falter and fall.

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

I barely had time to register them before those rifles were pointed at me.
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.
Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.
Keep your broken arm inside your sleeve.
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.
O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.
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.

Up ahead, I saw someone, a middle-aged lady in a hippie dress, falter and fall.

The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
I feel very strongly that change is good because it stirs up the system.
There are no wise few. Every aristocracy that has ever existed has behaved, in all essential points, exactly like a small mob.
I am not sincere, even when I say I am not.
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.
He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.
Never does the human soul appear so strong and noble as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury.

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.

If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.
To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all.
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.
You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans.
I'm moving, but don't worry! Someone once told me we're all on the same planet, so I'll be okay!
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.
Do it now. It is not safe to leave a generous feeling to the cooling influences of the world.

That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.

You never find yourself until you face the truth.
In an industrial society which confuses work and productivity, the necessity of producing has always been an enemy of the desire to create.
Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn whatever state I am in, therin to be content
The strongest possible piece of advice I would give any young woman is: Don't screw around, and don't smoke.
Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable.
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.
There are no wise few. Every aristocracy that has ever existed has behaved, in all essential points, exactly like a small mob.

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.

Maybe the most any of us can expect of ourselves isn't perfection but progress.
As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life.
I've never quite believed that one chance is all I get.
I have a simple philosophy. Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. And scratch where it itches.
Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.
We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language.

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

Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.
The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility.
If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.
Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.
Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.
There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.
O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.

I strained around against the crowd and saw Van looking with disgust at an older guy in a nice suit who was kind of smirking at her. She was digging in her purse and I knew what she was digging for.

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.
What makes the engine go? Desire, desire, desire.
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose.
He who is not very strong in memory should not meddle with lying.
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 discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star.

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

If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.
When I was a kid my parents moved a lot, but I always found them.
Late to bed and late to wake will keep you long on money and short on mistakes.
If it weren't for baseball, many kids wouldn't know what a millionaire looked like.
Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
Go through your phone book, call people and ask them to drive you to the airport. The ones who will drive you are your true friends. The rest aren't bad people; they're just acquaintances.
The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is inefficiency. An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty.

It is better to wear out than to rust out.

Like anyone else, there are days I feel beautiful and days I don't, and when I don't, I do something about it.
Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality.
We all have strength enough to endure the misfortunes of others.
You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.
I ended up stepping on her stomach as the crowd pushed me past her, but by then I don't think she was feeling anything.
Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment.
Treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.

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

Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.
All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance.
Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.
Music is essentially useless, as life is.
Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that of another.
You freeze where you are, time stops, and your heart thunders in your ears.

TV is chewing gum for the eyes.

No.
No one goes there nowadays, it's too crowded.
Deeds, not words shall speak me.
I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.
Most advances in science come when a person for one reason or another is forced to change fields.
If you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome; if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent; if you believe the military, nothing is safe.
The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.

It's wonderful what we can do if we're always doing.

I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
The average person thinks he isn't.
The faceless, eyeless armed man above me kept his gun very level.
There is surely a piece of divinity in us, something that was before the elements, and owes no homage unto the sun.
Statistics: The only science that enables different experts using the same figures to draw different conclusions.
Truth has beauty, power and necessity.
Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.

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.

All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.
A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself...True happiness is born of self-reliance.
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 believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome; if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent; if you believe the military, nothing is safe.
Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.
I was in total darkness now and I strained my ears to hear what was going on with my friends.

Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.

Treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.
O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.
...happiness gives us the energy which is the basis of health.
The more freedom we enjoy, the greater the responsibility we bear, toward others as well as ourselves.
Why the hell would terrorists kidnap a bunch of high school students?
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?
Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.

Nothing in the world can take the place of Persistence.

You couldn't even prove the White House staff sane beyond a reasonable doubt.
We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.
I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.
Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, not swallowed.
Eat a third and drink a third and leave the remaining third of your stomach empty. Then, when you get angry, there will be sufficient room for your rage.
I am not sincere, even when I say I am not.
A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead. A man with ambition and love for his blessings here on earth is ever so alive. Having been alive, it won't be so hard in the end to lie down and rest.

Nothing is as simple as we hope it will be.

Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.
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.
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.
There is an applause superior to that of the multitudes: one's own.
Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack.
O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.
...happiness gives us the energy which is the basis of health.

When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers.

Sometimes you can't see yourself clearly until you see yourself through the eyes of others.
Peace is when time doesn't matter as it passes by.
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.
He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.
Typos are very important to all written form. It gives the reader something to look for so they aren't distracted by the total lack of content in your writing.
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.
Be honorable yourself if you wish to associate with honorable people.

The driest period is from March to June and the wettest months are from October to January.

Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.
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.
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.
My theory of evolution is that Darwin was adopted.
Now we were descending just as steeply.
Newspapermen learn to call a murderer 'an alleged murderer' and the King of England 'the alleged King of England' to avoid libel suits.
In the right light, at the right time, everything is extraordinary.

Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.

We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe.
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 Past is to be respected and acknoledged, but not to be worshiped. It is our future in which we will find our greatness.
As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.
It is only possible to live happily ever after on a day-to-day basis.
Some people make headlines while others make history.
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.

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

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.
Van was screaming something and Jolu was shouting and I looked at them for a second and that was when someone put a coarse.
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
It is not enough to aim; you must hit.
Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.
Love truth, and pardon error.
I am not young enough to know everything.

When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest.

The charity that hastens to proclaim its good deeds, ceases to be charity, and is only pride and ostentation.
Men of genius do not excel in any profession because they labor in it, but they labor in it because they excel.
Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.
Never despair; but if you do, work on in despair.
Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.
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.

However, legislation itself creates only a certain legal environment, certain conditions for equality, but does not ensure their fulfillment.

Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
We think in generalities, but we live in detail.
Good taste is the enemy of comedy.
Confidence is the sexiest thing a woman can have. It's much sexier than any body part.
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.
I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for; perfection is God's business.

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

The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said.
The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth that it prevents you from achieving.
I don't think about risks much. I just do what I want to do. If you gotta go, you gotta go.
Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers.
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.
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.
You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.

He had luxurious moustaches and he was really proud of them.

I got up the third step and reached for the fourth, but it wasn't there.
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.
Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.
He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.
Most of the basic truths of life sound absurd at first hearing.
Now is the time for all good men to come to.
The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.

It is impossible to walk rapidly and be unhappy.

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.
Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.
Fresh clean sheets are one of life's small joys.
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.
Oh, I don't blame Congress. If I had $600 billion at my disposal, I'd be irresponsible, too.
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.
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.

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

Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.
The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth that it prevents you from achieving.
You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.
It's wonderful what we can do if we're always doing.
We can be sure that the greatest hope for maintaining equilibrium in the face of any situation rests within ourselves.
The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.