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subota, 23.10.2010.

Contemporary life is impossible without reading.

Art is science made clear.
It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.
From the moment I picked up your book until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.
I didn't even breathe.
People will buy anything that is one to a customer.
Why do writers write? Because it isn't there.
There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.

Usually such people keep the poultry and the cattle.

Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain.
I guess we'd be living in a boring, perfect world if everybody wished everybody else well.
Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
I got up the third step and reached for the fourth, but it wasn't there.
Walking is man's best medicine.
Take a two-mile walk every morning before breakfast.

Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

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.
Life is consciousness.
The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said.
Be a good listener. Your ears will never get you in trouble.
The older I grow, the less important the comma becomes. Let the reader catch his own breath.
You know what's interesting about Washington? It's the kind of place where second-guessing has become second nature.
If your parents never had children, chances are you won't, either.

A moment later, I caught my breath, but I didn't say anything.

I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!
Temptation rarely comes in working hours. It is in their leisure time that men are made or marred.
Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
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.
Your parents, they give you your life, but then they try to give you their life.
Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

It was ages ago, but this stands out in my memory quiet vividly.

Van's sweater was soaked in blood.
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
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.
In the right light, at the right time, everything is extraordinary.
To try to be better is to be better.
There is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income.
Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.

Tasmania, the island south of Australia, is small.

Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.
I say luck is when an opportunity comes along, and you're prepared for it.
Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives.
You never know how a horse will pull until you hook him up to a heavy load.
The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value.
He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.
If you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome; if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent; if you believe the military, nothing is safe.

This involves taking a realistic view of your strengths and weaknesses.

I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars.
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.
I feel very strongly that change is good because it stirs up the system.
Sorrow was like the wind. It came in gusts.
One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.
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.
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.

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

Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid.
There's so much pollution in the air now that if it weren't for our lungs there'd be no place to put it all.
The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
Ask a deeply religious Christian if he?d rather live next to a bearded Muslim that may or may not be plotting a terror attack, or an atheist that may or may not show him how to set up a wireless network in his house. On the scale of prejudice, atheists don?t seem so bad lately.
We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.

We may not imagine how our lives could be more frustrating and complex--but Congress can.

Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.
I don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is a language I don't understand.
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.
You don't get anything clean without getting something else dirty.
The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility.
Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.

srijeda, 20.10.2010.

Others opposed to population regulation feel that all people should have the freedom to have as many children as they want.

It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.
Obscurity is a good thing. You can fail in obscurity. It removes the fear of failure.
I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.
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.
Refuse to be ill. Never tell people you are ill; never own it to yourself. Illness is one of those things which a man should resist on principle.
Winning is important to me, but what brings me real joy is the experience of being fully engaged in whatever I'm doing.
Someone went upside my head again.

The biggest threat to the coastline is pollution. Even much-loved.

You can't deny laughter. When it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.
Hope is tomorrow's veneer over today's disappointment.
Be a good listener. Your ears will never get you in trouble.
There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.
Don't mace him!" I shouted over the din. "You'll get us all too.
A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top .
It's very hard to take yourself too seriously when you look at the world from outer space.

Many schools and universities have no central heating either, and the floors there are made of stone.

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.
Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinions at all.
At my lemonade stand I used to give the first glass away free and charge five dollars for the second glass. The refill contained the antidote.
Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
Dance is the hidden language of the soul.
Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
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 center of the city is on Capital Hill. This building houses both the senate and a House of Representatives.

It is only possible to live happily ever after on a day-to-day basis.
I have always felt that a politician is to be judged by the animosities he excites among his opponents.
The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.
I write because I'm afraid to say some things out loud.
So little time and so little to do.
So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.
Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.

The surge in population is both a cause of the changed relationship and one of the clearest illustrations of how startling the change has been, especially when viewed in a historical context. From the emergence of modern humans 200,000 years ago until Ju

It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
Money doesn't always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are no happier than people with nine million dollars.
The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
When they discover the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to discover they are not it.
The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.
Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
My mother loved children -- she would have given anything if I had been one.

The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.
Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid.
There is no stigma attached to recognizing a bad decision in time to install a better one.
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.
It's so much easier to write a resume than to craft a spirit.
I use an optimistic, positive approach to deal with my symptoms and it came the hard way, before I learned to laugh with myself a little.
If we fall, we don't need self-recrimination or blame or anger - we need a reawakening of our intention and a willingness to recommit, to be whole-hearted once again.

What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty.

He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.
Never rely on the glory of the morning nor the smiles of your mother-in-law.
People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.
Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present.
I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.
The average person thinks he isn't.
Nothing is so awesomely unfamiliar as the familiar that discloses itself at the end of a journey.

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

The first vehicle that screamed past -- an ambulance -- didn't even slow down.
It felt like they used a baton or something -- it was harder than anyone had ever hit me in the head before.
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.
Is there life before death?
Ask a deeply religious Christian if he?d rather live next to a bearded Muslim that may or may not be plotting a terror attack, or an atheist that may or may not show him how to set up a wireless network in his house. On the scale of prejudice, atheists don?t seem so bad lately.
Fresh clean sheets are one of life's small joys.
Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.

The climate in Great Britain is generally mild and temperate due to the influence of the Gulf Stream. The south-western winds carry the warmth and moisture into Britain. The climate in Britain is usually described as cool, temperate and humid.

The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.
A man can do all things if he but wills them.
Sorrow was like the wind. It came in gusts.
The great thing about a computer notebook is that no matter how much you stuff into it, it doesn't get bigger or heavier.
Use what you have to run toward your best - that's how I now live my life.
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.

Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.

It is better to wear out than to rust out.
Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present.
Peace is when time doesn't matter as it passes by.
Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose.
Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.
Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out and minutely articulated.
Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality.

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

A chess genius is a human being who focuses vast, little-understood mental gifts and labors on an ultimately trivial human enterprise.
You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.
The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.
I feel very strongly that change is good because it stirs up the system.
I stumbled some, then a hand pushed my head down and I was inside the Hummer.
I was the kid next door's imaginary friend.
The most beautiful adventures are not those we go to seek.

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.

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.
Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.
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.
Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.
We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.
Americans are benevolently ignorant about Canada, while Canadians are malevolently well informed about the United States.
When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.

Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.

I think it is good that books still exist, but they do make me sleepy.
Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
Better shun the bait, than struggle in the snare.
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.
Hearing voices no one else can hear isn't a good sign, even in the wizarding world.
Get pleasure out of life...as much as you can. Nobody ever died from pleasure.
I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.

When used in combination with counseling, this drug lessens the craving for alcohol in many people and helps prevent a return to heavy drinking.

There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.
Electricity is actually made up of extremely tiny particles called electrons, that you cannot see with the naked eye unless you have been drinking.
Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.
Our lives teach us who we are.
I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!
In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.
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.

You couldn't even prove the White House staff sane beyond a reasonable doubt.

People fail forward to success.
Electricity is actually made up of extremely tiny particles called electrons, that you cannot see with the naked eye unless you have been drinking.
It?s like your batteries get low, and you need to charge them on someone else?s story.
Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.
You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence.
I'd never looked down the barrel of a gun before, but everything you've heard about the experience is true.
Keep cool and you command everybody.

Try to answer these questions as fully and honestly as you can.

I'm moving, but don't worry! Someone once told me we're all on the same planet, so I'll be okay!
Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.
Now we were descending just as steeply.
I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.
You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all.

For the most part, fear is nothing but an illusion. When you share it with someone else, it tends to disappear.

I used to think that the brain was the most wonderful organ in my body. Then I realized who was telling me this.
Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.
I love my past. I love my present. I'm not ashamed of what I've had, and I'm not sad because I have it no longer.
Van was screaming something and Jolu was shouting and I looked at them for a second and that was when someone put a coarse.
You don't get anything clean without getting something else dirty.
Memory feeds imagination.
Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.

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

My theory of evolution is that Darwin was adopted.
For me, it's that I contributed, ... That I'm on this planet doing some good and making people happy. That's to me the most important thing, that my hour of television is positive and upbeat and an antidote for all the negative stuff going on in life.
For visions come not to polluted eyes.
Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
Ask a deeply religious Christian if he?d rather live next to a bearded Muslim that may or may not be plotting a terror attack, or an atheist that may or may not show him how to set up a wireless network in his house. On the scale of prejudice, atheists don?t seem so bad lately.
A man can do all things if he but wills them.
I believe that every now and then it is important to laugh at ourselves and take a lighter approach to our life conditions.

A number of catholics chief of whom was Robert Catesby determined to kill the King and his ministers by blowing up the house of Parliament with gunpowder.

Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain.
It was enough to make a body ashamed of the human race.
With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.
The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.
Life is consciousness.
Never rely on the glory of the morning nor the smiles of your mother-in-law.
We play the hands of cards life gives us. And the worst hands can make us the best players.

You know what's interesting about Washington? It's the kind of place where second-guessing has become second nature.

The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.
Good taste is the enemy of comedy.
The undertaking of a new action brings new strength.
My friends are my estate.
We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.
I barely had time to register them before those rifles were pointed at me.
Even the fear of death is nothing compared to the fear of not having lived authentically and fully.

The Aral Sea is on the brink of extinction.

Art is science made clear.
Arguments are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often convincing.
Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day.
I daresay one profits more by the mistakes one makes off one's own bat than by doing the right thing on somebody's else advice.
The faceless, eyeless armed man above me kept his gun very level.
A minute's success pays the failure of years.
Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid.

His work in Data is probably the most famous of his smaller works, and focuses on finding certain measurements and quantities when others are given.

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best day and night to make you like everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight and never stop fighting.
When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.
It's wonderful what we can do if we're always doing.
There is no stigma attached to recognizing a bad decision in time to install a better one.
Vigorous writing is concise.
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.

Make a decision, even if it's wrong.

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.
The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
Hope is tomorrow's veneer over today's disappointment.
The summer night is like a perfection of thought.
Things are only impossible until they're not.
You cannot run away from a weakness; you must sometimes fight it out or perish. And if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?
He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.

Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.

Turn the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles.
Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinions at all.
Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.
The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
We've got to get my friend to a hospital --"
Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.
Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half the time.

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

I was as scared as I'd ever been. There was screaming everywhere now, and more bodies on the floor, and the press from behind was as relentless as a bulldozer. It was all I could do to keep on my feet.
The first vehicle that screamed past -- an ambulance -- didn't even slow down.
All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.
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.
What if this weren't a hypothetical question?
They say such nice things about people at their funerals that it makes me sad to realize that I'm going to miss mine by just a few days.
We need anything politically important rationed out like Pez: small, sweet, and coming out of a funny, plastic head.

The faceless, eyeless armed man above me kept his gun very level.

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.'
Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself...True happiness is born of self-reliance.
Art is either plagiarism or revolution.
Whenever evil befalls us, we ought to ask ourselves, after the first suffering, how we can turn it into good. So shall we take occasion, from one bitter root, to raise perhaps many flowers.
It is fortunate to be of high birth, but it is no less so to be of such character that people do not care to know whether you are or are not.
More movement, and the sense of bodies being shackled in alongside of me.

The summer night is like a perfection of thought.

Better shun the bait, than struggle in the snare.
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
Hares can gambol over the body of a dead lion.
Darryl wasn't in good shape -- he was white-faced and panting.
Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
I phoned my dad to tell him I had stopped smoking. He called me a quitter.
Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit.

It is often cold.

A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms.
We need anything politically important rationed out like Pez: small, sweet, and coming out of a funny, plastic head.
The first vehicle that screamed past -- an ambulance -- didn't even slow down.
It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.
Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.
I use an optimistic, positive approach to deal with my symptoms and it came the hard way, before I learned to laugh with myself a little.
When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.

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

Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.
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.
It was enough to make a body ashamed of the human race.
I was the kid next door's imaginary friend.
It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
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.

I think we can't live without books.

How to Raise your I.Q. by Eating Gifted Children
Students achieving Oneness will move on to Twoness.
It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.
I was pushed roughly but dispassionately onto my stomach and something went twice around my wrists and then tightened up as well, feeling like baling wire and biting cruelly.
Van was screaming something and Jolu was shouting and I looked at them for a second and that was when someone put a coarse.
He who boasts of his ancestry is praising the deeds of another.
Liberals are very broadminded: they are always willing to give careful consideration to both sides of the same side.

Often there is a restaurant, so that it is possible to spend an afternoon and evening there (if you have enough money, of course).

You don't stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop laughing.
I feel about airplanes the way I feel about diets. It seems to me they are wonderful things for other people to go on.
A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
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.
Most advances in science come when a person for one reason or another is forced to change fields.
All programmers are playwrights and all computers are lousy actors.

A moment later, I caught my breath, but I didn't say anything.

Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster. Your life will never be the same again.
Obscurity is a good thing. You can fail in obscurity. It removes the fear of failure.
Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
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.
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.
You create your opportunities by asking for them.

The highest buildings are Impure State Building and the united national building.

Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.
There is no stigma attached to recognizing a bad decision in time to install a better one.
It's never just a game when you're winning.
As I neared her, I bent to help her up, and was nearly knocked over her.
Rest is the sweet sauce of labor.
For the most part, fear is nothing but an illusion. When you share it with someone else, it tends to disappear.
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.

utorak, 19.10.2010.

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

If the only prayer you ever say in your whole life is "thank you," that would suffice.
If our early lessons of acceptance were as successful as our early lessons of anger, how much happier we would all be.
Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
Assuming either the Left Wing or the Right Wing gained control of the country, it would probably fly around in circles.
Maybe they were terrorists!
Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.
All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.

The most important thing she'd learned over the years was that there was no way to be a perfect mother and a million ways to be a good one.

Americans are benevolently ignorant about Canada, while Canadians are malevolently well informed about the United States.
I used to think that the brain was the most wonderful organ in my body. Then I realized who was telling me this.
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
As long as you derive inner help and comfort from anything, keep it.
If you refuse to be made straight when you are green, you will not be made straight when you are dry.
At my lemonade stand I used to give the first glass away free and charge five dollars for the second glass. The refill contained the antidote.
Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.

Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose.

If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk?
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.
I'm going to stay in show business until I'm the last one left.
The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
My head rang like a gong.
Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality... the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.

It's very easy to form a negative opinion about a person just because you don't like the way he looks, and it becomes like a barrier for further communication between you and this person, though in fact he can be an interesting, well-educated and talente

I felt the doors open near me, and then saw a confusion of booted feet moving close by.
I feel very strongly that change is good because it stirs up the system.
I write because I'm afraid to say some things out loud.
I've never quite believed that one chance is all I get.
You couldn't even prove the White House staff sane beyond a reasonable doubt.
Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers.
Is love supposed to last throughout all time, or is it like trains changing at random stops. If I loved her, how could I leave her? If I felt that way then, how come I don't feel anything now?

In the case of scholars, whose occupation is directly involved with that right, the concept of academic freedom generally includes the property right of tenure of office (see tenure , in education). Essential to the acceptance of the concept of academic f

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?
There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers.
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' (I found it!) but 'That's funny ...'
It is not enough to aim; you must hit.
Everybody likes a kidder, but nobody lends him money.
I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance.

I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.

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.
Americans are benevolently ignorant about Canada, while Canadians are malevolently well informed about the United States.
We inhereit from our ancestors gifts so often taken for granted... Each of us contains within... this inheritance of soul. We are links between the ages, containing past and present expectations, sacred memories and future promise.
I 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.
I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming... suddenly you find - at the age of 50, say - that a whole new life has opened before you.
Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.
There are a terrible lot of lies going around the world, and the worst of it is half of them are true.

The only time to buy these is on a day with no 'y' in it.

Beware the pull on your heartstrings -- it's often the pursestrings that are actually being reached for.
I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters.
I was the kid next door's imaginary friend.
One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.
If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.

We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.

Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.
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.'
Winning is important to me, but what brings me real joy is the experience of being fully engaged in whatever I'm doing.
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.
There is no stigma attached to recognizing a bad decision in time to install a better one.
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.
Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.

četvrtak, 14.10.2010.

The party opposed the repeal of the Missouri Compromise and the extension of slavery, denounced the Supreme Court's decision in the Dred Scott Case , and favored the admission of Kansas as a free state.

Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
I am doomed to an eternity of compulsive work. No set goal achieved satisfies. Success only breeds a new goal. The golden apple devoured has seeds. It is endless.
When I was a kid my parents moved a lot, but I always found them.
I've never quite believed that one chance is all I get.
Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
Look at all the sentences which seem true and question them.

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

I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.
A man can do all things if he but wills them.
There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?
If we fall, we don't need self-recrimination or blame or anger - we need a reawakening of our intention and a willingness to recommit, to be whole-hearted once again.
Even the best of friends need time apart.
I hope that when I die, people say about me, 'Boy, that guy sure owed me a lot of money.'
The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.

Nothing is impossible. Some things are just less likely than others.

A moment later, I caught my breath, but I didn't say anything.
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
Even the best of friends need time apart.
Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.
It had only one fault. It was kind of lousy.
I am here for a purpose and that purpose is to grow into a mountain, not to shrink to a grain of sand. Henceforth will I apply ALL my efforts to become the highest mountain of all and I will strain my potential until it cries for mercy.
Vegetarianism is harmless enough, though it is apt to fill a man with wind and self-righteousness.

srijeda, 13.10.2010.

More than one-half of the 294 workers attended the sessions. Researchers based their results on data from 120 employees who completed prestudy and poststudy evaluations.

Nothing is impossible. Some things are just less likely than others.
Nothing is so good for an ignorant man as silence; and if he was sensible of this he would not be ignorant.
On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily lying down.
Sorrow was like the wind. It came in gusts.
Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity.
I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.

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

It is easier to exclude harmful passions than to rule them, and to deny them admittance than to control them after they have been admitted.
Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.
Sorrow was like the wind. It came in gusts.
I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.
Summer afternoon - Summer afternoon... the two most beautiful words in the English language.
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.

It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.

I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.
It felt like they used a baton or something -- it was harder than anyone had ever hit me in the head before.
Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.
I hope that when I die, people say about me, 'Boy, that guy sure owed me a lot of money.'
I got up the third step and reached for the fourth, but it wasn't there.
Nothing is said that has not been said before.
A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of.

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

I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
Van's sweater was soaked in blood.
Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.
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.
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
There is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income.

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

The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.
I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.
Some people make headlines while others make history.
A doctor saves lives -- It's up to people to create lives that are worth saving.
By prizing heartfulness above faultlessness, we may reap more from our effort because we're more likely to be changed by it.
You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.
The crux... is that the vast majority of the mass of the universe seems to be missing.

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.

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.
The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.
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.
Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth?Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.
I say luck is when an opportunity comes along, and you're prepared for it.
Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.
Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.

No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.

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.
Rest is the sweet sauce of labor.
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.
Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
Dance is the hidden language of the soul.
He had learned over the years that poor people did not feel so poor when allowed to give occasionally.
A hobby a day keeps the doldrums away.

One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.

Men of genius do not excel in any profession because they labor in it, but they labor in it because they excel.
If our early lessons of acceptance were as successful as our early lessons of anger, how much happier we would all be.
Skiing combines outdoor fun with knocking down trees with your face.
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.
Sorrow was like the wind. It came in gusts.
I don't think about risks much. I just do what I want to do. If you gotta go, you gotta go.
Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid.

College isn't the place to go for ideas.

Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid.
You cannot be mad at somebody who makes you laugh - it's as simple as that.
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.
Sometimes you can't see yourself clearly until you see yourself through the eyes of others.
Writing gives you the illusion of control, and then you realize it's just an illusion, that people are going to bring their own stuff into it.
Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that you live, if you do.
I define comfort as self-acceptance. When we finally learn that self-care begins and ends with ourselves, we no longer demand sustenance and happiness from others.

As the result of a shipwreck Gulliver finds himself in a country, inhabited by a race of people about six inches high.

Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.
You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.
Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, not swallowed.
I mean, I knew that in the abstract there were terrorists somewhere in the world, but they didn't really represent any risk to me.
You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.
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.

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

The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
Nothing is as simple as we hope it will be.
The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.
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?
Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.
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.

Swift meant this small country with it's shallow interest, corrupted laws and evil customs to symbolize the England of the 18'th centure, the court with it's atmosphere of hostility, hypocrizy and flattery where the author felt as lonely as his hero when

Things are only impossible until they're not.
Never rely on the glory of the morning nor the smiles of your mother-in-law.
The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it.
He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.
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?
Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.
Beware the pull on your heartstrings -- it's often the pursestrings that are actually being reached for.

Other research is investigating the ways in which genetic and environmental factors combine to cause alcoholism.

Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit.
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.
We are what we repeatedly do.
Beware the pull on your heartstrings -- it's often the pursestrings that are actually being reached for.
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.
Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.
The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.

I believe that every now and then it is important to laugh at ourselves and take a lighter approach to our life conditions.

I'm moving, but don't worry! Someone once told me we're all on the same planet, so I'll be okay!
It's wonderful what we can do if we're always doing.
Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.
Intimacy is what makes a marriage, not a ceremony, not a piece of paper from the state.
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.
Keep cool and you command everybody.
I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.

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

Be honorable yourself if you wish to associate with honorable people.
Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable.
You couldn't even prove the White House staff sane beyond a reasonable doubt.
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.
Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.

While students no longer read directly from his writing, the textbooks of today are still based on Euclidean proofs and theorems.

We do not believe if we do not live and work according to our belief.
Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.
For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
Seize opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind.
Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
Money frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy.
We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language.

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.

An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.
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.
Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.
Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy.
When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.
All human situations have their inconveniences. We feel those of the present but neither see nor feel those of the future; and hence we often make troublesome changes without amendment, and frequently for the worse.
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.

Never does the human soul appear so strong and noble as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury.

The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
A few seconds later, I tripped over a steel staircase, bashing my shins.
Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.
You know what's interesting about Washington? It's the kind of place where second-guessing has become second nature.
Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.
The better part of valor is discretion, in the which better part I have saved my life.

Everybody enjoys the cloudless sky and bright sun.

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.'
You don't get anything clean without getting something else dirty.
It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.
Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.
Look at all the sentences which seem true and question them.
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
To be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.

When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.

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!'
Men of genius do not excel in any profession because they labor in it, but they labor in it because they excel.
The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star.
The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
To try to be better is to be better.
The faceless, eyeless armed man above me kept his gun very level.
Sack over my head and cinched it tight around my windpipe.

They say such nice things about people at their funerals that it makes me sad to realize that I'm going to miss mine by just a few days.

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.
Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality.
Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.
If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; If you would know, and not be known, live in a city.
Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.
Feet, why do I need them if I have wings to fly?
Paradise is exactly like where you are right now... only much, much better.

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

In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
Newspapermen learn to call a murderer 'an alleged murderer' and the King of England 'the alleged King of England' to avoid libel suits.
No matter what I do, no matter how predictable I try to make my life, it will not be any more predictable than the rest of the world. Which is chaotic.
Hope is tomorrow's veneer over today's disappointment.
Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.
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.
A joke's a very serious thing.

The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is inefficiency. An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty.

It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.
I feel about airplanes the way I feel about diets. It seems to me they are wonderful things for other people to go on.
Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.
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.
Statistics: The only science that enables different experts using the same figures to draw different conclusions.
Nothing is as simple as we hope it will be.
Is there life before death?

It's the opinion of some that crops could be grown on the moon. Which raises the fear that it may not be long before we're paying somebody not to.

I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate.
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.
Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.
The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.
As a scientist, I am not sure anymore that life can be reduced to a class struggle, to dialectical materialism, or any set of formulas. Life is spontaneous and it is unpredictable, it is magical. I think that we have struggled so hard with the tangible that we have forgotten the intangible.
The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
It was enough to make a body ashamed of the human race.

In 1960, an incumbent Vice President, Richard M. Nixon was nominated for president for the first time since 1836.

I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.
My mother loved children -- she would have given anything if I had been one.
Be honorable yourself if you wish to associate with honorable people.
My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
Keep your broken arm inside your sleeve.
Depend not on fortune, but on conduct.
Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves.

Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

I'm moving, but don't worry! Someone once told me we're all on the same planet, so I'll be okay!
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.
I despise the pleasure of pleasing people that I despise.
Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.
Dance is the hidden language of the soul.
Learning to live in the present moment is part of the path of joy.
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.

nedjelja, 10.10.2010.

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

Health consists of having the same diseases as one's neighbors.
The strongest possible piece of advice I would give any young woman is: Don't screw around, and don't smoke.
I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.
I went up the stairs cautiously, not able to use my hands.
All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.
Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.
Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.

Every country and every nation has it's own traditions and customs.

Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
Money doesn't always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are no happier than people with nine million dollars.
I opened my mouth, then shut it, then, very slowly, I held my hands up in front of me.
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.
Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster. Your life will never be the same again.
She got her looks from her father. He's a plastic surgeon.
When they discover the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to discover they are not it.

Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

He had learned over the years that poor people did not feel so poor when allowed to give occasionally.
The older I grow, the less important the comma becomes. Let the reader catch his own breath.
The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.
The first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved without courting love. To be loved without 'playing up' to anyone - even to himself.
The summer night is like a perfection of thought.
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.
Write a wise saying and your name will live forever.

Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.

I was the kid next door's imaginary friend.
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.
Things won are done; joy's soul lies in the doing.
TV is chewing gum for the eyes.
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.
At my lemonade stand I used to give the first glass away free and charge five dollars for the second glass. The refill contained the antidote.
Late to bed and late to wake will keep you long on money and short on mistakes.

You know what's interesting about Washington? It's the kind of place where second-guessing has become second nature.

I love my past. I love my present. I'm not ashamed of what I've had, and I'm not sad because I have it no longer.
You can go a long way with bad legs and a good head.
When all is said and done, the weather and love are the two elements about which one can never be sure.
Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.
I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.
Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.
The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.

Everyone can find something he or she likes. For instance, some people prefer to live somewhere in the country in a small, but cosy cottage or a large farmhouse.

Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.
Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.
We inhereit from our ancestors gifts so often taken for granted... Each of us contains within... this inheritance of soul. We are links between the ages, containing past and present expectations, sacred memories and future promise.
Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.
Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.
I nearly fell again, but new hands grabbed me from in front and dragged me down a steel floor and then forced me to my knees and locked my hands to something behind me.
Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.

I don?t like to wear a lot of warm clothes, that is why my favorite season is spring.

The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said.
Van was screaming something and Jolu was shouting and I looked at them for a second and that was when someone put a coarse.
I gathered we were headed over Nob Hill, and from the angle, it seemed we were taking one of the steeper routes.
I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
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.
Anything looked at closely becomes wonderful.
'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.

A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of.

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.
Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself...True happiness is born of self-reliance.
The scornful nostril and the high head gather not the odors that lie on the track of truth.
The most beautiful adventures are not those we go to seek.
There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.
Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
I was sick of cars driving right past me.

This involves taking a realistic view of your strengths and weaknesses.

Keep cool and you command everybody.
You must not think me necessarily foolish because I am facetious, nor will I consider you necessarily wise because you are grave.
Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.
Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.
I didn't even breathe.
I got up the third step and reached for the fourth, but it wasn't there.
To repeat what others have said, requires education; to challenge it, requires brains.

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?

Good breeding consists of concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.
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 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.
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?
It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.
Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it.
Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.

A 15-session worksite coping-skills intervention designed to reduce work- and family-related risk, to enhance protective factors, and to reduce negative health outcomes was conducted among 136 female secretaries.

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.
Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives.
What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty.
A man can do all things if he but wills them.
I don't generally feel anything until noon; then it's time for my nap.
We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language.
The strongest possible piece of advice I would give any young woman is: Don't screw around, and don't smoke.

If you take to reading, the world of other people's ideas and problems becomes familiar to you.

We need anything politically important rationed out like Pez: small, sweet, and coming out of a funny, plastic head.
Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others.
He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.
We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language.
Let me tell you, quite frankly, it took a while and a lot of therapy to get here.
When you have got an elephant by the hind leg, and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.
God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.

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

The art of dining well is no slight art, the pleasure not a slight pleasure.
History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind.
We cannot deny the facts of nature, but we should certainly try to improve on them.
If your parents never had children, chances are you won't, either.
There are a terrible lot of lies going around the world, and the worst of it is half of them are true.
This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer.
The strongest possible piece of advice I would give any young woman is: Don't screw around, and don't smoke.

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

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.
People fail forward to success.
To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.
Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.
Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.
Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.
Never let the demands of tomorrow interfere with the pleasures and excitement of today.

Write a wise saying and your name will live forever.

To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level.
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
I am here for a purpose and that purpose is to grow into a mountain, not to shrink to a grain of sand. Henceforth will I apply ALL my efforts to become the highest mountain of all and I will strain my potential until it cries for mercy.
To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.
My mother loved children -- she would have given anything if I had been one.
It felt like they used a baton or something -- it was harder than anyone had ever hit me in the head before.
Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.

I feel very strongly that change is good because it stirs up the system.

No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.
He was one of those men who think that the world can be saved by writing a pamphlet.
A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money.
It is not enough to aim; you must hit.
It's the opinion of some that crops could be grown on the moon. Which raises the fear that it may not be long before we're paying somebody not to.
I'm moving, but don't worry! Someone once told me we're all on the same planet, so I'll be okay!
An idea is salvation by imagination.

Before long Gulliver undertakes another voyage.

What children take from us, they give?We become people who feel more deeply, question more deeply, hurt more deeply, and love more deeply.
That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.
Be more prompt to go to a friend in adversity than in prosperity.
There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.
Typos are very important to all written form. It gives the reader something to look for so they aren't distracted by the total lack of content in your writing.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
It is fortunate to be of high birth, but it is no less so to be of such character that people do not care to know whether you are or are not.

I remember we were glad to see that Ulanova was dancing the main part.

I mean, I knew that in the abstract there were terrorists somewhere in the world, but they didn't really represent any risk to me.
He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
I was pushed roughly but dispassionately onto my stomach and something went twice around my wrists and then tightened up as well, feeling like baling wire and biting cruelly.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say.
Someone dragged me by my arms out onto the road, then shoved me, stumbling, down a paved road.

četvrtak, 07.10.2010.

Only some people get what they want. Those are the people who show up to get it.

Someone's boring me. I think it's me.
Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less.
He was one of those men who think that the world can be saved by writing a pamphlet.
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.
Like anyone else, there are days I feel beautiful and days I don't, and when I don't, I do something about it.
You should not live one way in private, another in public.
The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry is like the potato - the best part under ground.

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

It felt like they used a baton or something -- it was harder than anyone had ever hit me in the head before.
Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.
Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.
There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.
When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time.
To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all.

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.

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.
To achieve great things we must live as though we were never going to die.
We should every night call ourselves to an account; What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed? What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired? Our vices will abort of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.
In real life, unlike in Shakespeare, the sweetness of the rose depends upon the name it bears. Things are not only what they are. They are, in very important respects, what they seem to be.
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?
Best wide-angle lens? Two steps backward. Look for the 'ah-ha'.
When I was a kid my parents moved a lot, but I always found them.

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

What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say.
Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.
Make hunger thy sauce, as a medicine for health.
I have a simple philosophy. Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. And scratch where it itches.
Life engenders life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.
How to Raise your I.Q. by Eating Gifted Children
The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry is like the potato - the best part under ground.

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

Money frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy.
I was the kid next door's imaginary friend.
Never rely on the glory of the morning nor the smiles of your mother-in-law.
In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the next meal would come from.
Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less.
Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far.
Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.

Experience is a good teacher, but she send in terrific bills.

If you don't know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else.
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.
Memory feeds imagination.
The better part of valor is discretion, in the which better part I have saved my life.
The summer night is like a perfection of thought.
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.
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.

You cannot be mad at somebody who makes you laugh - it's as simple as that.

The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.
The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.
It's the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion.
Why do writers write? Because it isn't there.
I love my past. I love my present. I'm not ashamed of what I've had, and I'm not sad because I have it no longer.
I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
I barely had time to register them before those rifles were pointed at me.

My wish is to ride the tempest, tame the waves, kill the sharks. I will not resign myself...

Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
Eat a third and drink a third and leave the remaining third of your stomach empty. Then, when you get angry, there will be sufficient room for your rage.
The hands behind me gave me another shove.
I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars.
Innovation has nothing to do with how many R&D dollars you have. When Apple came up with the Mac, IBM was spending at least 100 times more on R&D. It's not about money. It's about the people you have, how you're led, and how much you get it.
Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.
People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.

All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.

If God had wanted us to vote, he would have given us candidates.
I never met anybody who said when they were a kid, "I wanna grow up and be a critic."
Each body has its art...
I didn't even breathe.
This world is given as the prize for the men in earnest; and that which is true of this world, is truer still of the world to come.
Nothing changes your opinion of a friend so surely as success - yours or his.
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.

srijeda, 06.10.2010.

But these places are also holy to the Aboriginals.

Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.
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.
I was pushed roughly but dispassionately onto my stomach and something went twice around my wrists and then tightened up as well, feeling like baling wire and biting cruelly.
It's the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion.
Nothing is as simple as we hope it will be.
I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for; perfection is God's business.
No one goes there nowadays, it's too crowded.

The crowd gives the leader new strength.

When I was a kid my parents moved a lot, but I always found them.
History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.
College isn't the place to go for ideas.
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 average person thinks he isn't.
You never know how a horse will pull until you hook him up to a heavy load.
Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.

For drink you can order a glass of water or juice, a cup of coffee or tea or alcohol drink such as wine or beer.

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 opened my mouth, then shut it, then, very slowly, I held my hands up in front of me.
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
When they discover the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to discover they are not it.
I have a simple philosophy. Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. And scratch where it itches.
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.
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.

People will buy anything that is one to a customer.

If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.
If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.
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.
Having a holiday weekend without a family member felt like putting on a sweater that had an extra arm.
Art is either plagiarism or revolution.
Only some people get what they want. Those are the people who show up to get it.
History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.

Many people wonder: Why can some individuals use alcohol without problems, while others are utterly unable to control their drinking?

A doctor saves lives -- It's up to people to create lives that are worth saving.
As I neared her, I bent to help her up, and was nearly knocked over her.
It is easier to exclude harmful passions than to rule them, and to deny them admittance than to control them after they have been admitted.
If you really do put a small value upon yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price.
The car slewed to a stop and only then did I notice that it wasn't a cop car, ambulance or fire-engine.
By prizing heartfulness above faultlessness, we may reap more from our effort because we're more likely to be changed by it.
Sack over my head and cinched it tight around my windpipe.

Some people make headlines while others make history.

The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.
A hobby a day keeps the doldrums away.
An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.
I used to think that the brain was the most wonderful organ in my body. Then I realized who was telling me this.
People were still cramming down the stairs, and more were squeezing past the turnstiles and down the escalators onto the platforms, but it was clear to me that this wasn't going to have a happy ending.
We all have strength enough to endure the misfortunes of others.
Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.

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.

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.
Americans are benevolently ignorant about Canada, while Canadians are malevolently well informed about the United States.
Winning is important to me, but what brings me real joy is the experience of being fully engaged in whatever I'm doing.
I'd never looked down the barrel of a gun before, but everything you've heard about the experience is true.
I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.
Darryl wasn't in good shape -- he was white-faced and panting.
I have very strong feelings about how you lead your life. You always look ahead, you never look back.

Much of the information we do have is from authors like Proclus who lived centuries later, writing about his books, not his life.

Some people make headlines while others make history.
Take a two-mile walk every morning before breakfast.
Hearing voices no one else can hear isn't a good sign, even in the wizarding world.
The car rocked back and forth and tipped uphill.
Never rely on the glory of the morning nor the smiles of your mother-in-law.
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!'
As I get older, I've learned to listen to people rather than accuse them of things.

The standard whiskeys of the world are Scotch (commonly spelled whisky ), Irish, American, and Canadian.

You always pass failure on the way to success.
It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.
Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day.
You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.
A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.

Good breeding consists of concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.

I'm moving, but don't worry! Someone once told me we're all on the same planet, so I'll be okay!
A doctor saves lives -- It's up to people to create lives that are worth saving.
Be a good listener. Your ears will never get you in trouble.
Things are only impossible until they're not.
If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody.
I sent the club a wire stating, PLEASE ACCEPT MY RESIGNATION. I DON'T WANT TO BELONG TO ANY CLUB THAT WILL ACCEPT ME AS A MEMBER.
The summer night is like a perfection of thought.

Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality.

You couldn't even prove the White House staff sane beyond a reasonable doubt.
I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
Intimacy is being seen and known as the person you truly are.
Equal opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent.
Is there life before death?
Like anyone else, there are days I feel beautiful and days I don't, and when I don't, I do something about it.
What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!

So I'm interested in different kinds of books.

We should every night call ourselves to an account; What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed? What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired? Our vices will abort of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.
Experience is a good teacher, but she send in terrific bills.
There is an evil tendency underlying all our technology - the tendency to do what is reasonable even when it isn't any good.
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.
Editor: a person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed.
Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.
A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of.

I'd never really believed in terrorists before.

You couldn't even prove the White House staff sane beyond a reasonable doubt.
Winning is important to me, but what brings me real joy is the experience of being fully engaged in whatever I'm doing.
Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.
You have no control over what the other guy does. You only have control over what you do.
Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.
I mean, I knew that in the abstract there were terrorists somewhere in the world, but they didn't really represent any risk to me.
I used to think that the brain was the most wonderful organ in my body. Then I realized who was telling me this.

Get pleasure out of life...as much as you can. Nobody ever died from pleasure.

Never eat more than you can lift.
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.
We learn something every day, and lots of times it's that what we learned the day before was wrong.
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.
I'm moving, but don't worry! Someone once told me we're all on the same planet, so I'll be okay!
For visions come not to polluted eyes.
Sorrow was like the wind. It came in gusts.

I don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is a language I don't understand.

Have patience awhile; slanders are not long-lived. Truth is the child of time; erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee.
It is impossible to walk rapidly and be unhappy.
My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
Never does the human soul appear so strong and noble as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury.
Depend not on fortune, but on conduct.
I like weights. You know where you stand with them. Well, sometimes you're lying under them, trying not to let them crush you, but you see, you KNOW they'd crush you if they could. There's honesty.
The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.

In the 2000 elections, the party's presidential nominee, George W. Bush appeared generally to lead in the polls in what ultimately became a popular-vote loss to Democrat Al Gore.

Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
For the night was not impartial. No, the night loved some more than others, served some more than others.
Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.
Having a holiday weekend without a family member felt like putting on a sweater that had an extra arm.
Time is that quality of nature which keeps events from happening all at once. Lately it doesn't seem to be working.

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

I had no idea how much of this was making it through the muffling bag.
The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.
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.
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'm going to stay in show business until I'm the last one left.
Newspapermen learn to call a murderer 'an alleged murderer' and the King of England 'the alleged King of England' to avoid libel suits.
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.

I'm moving, but don't worry! Someone once told me we're all on the same planet, so I'll be okay!

Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain.
It?s like your batteries get low, and you need to charge them on someone else?s story.
It is my hope that I can assist you in getting here too.
When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time.
Hope is tomorrow's veneer over today's disappointment.
You know what's interesting about Washington? It's the kind of place where second-guessing has become second nature.
One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.

utorak, 05.10.2010.

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

The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt.
The strongest possible piece of advice I would give any young woman is: Don't screw around, and don't smoke.
There is an applause superior to that of the multitudes: one's own.
Never rely on the glory of the morning nor the smiles of your mother-in-law.
Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.
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.

Vigorous writing is concise.

Love truth, and pardon error.
There were millions of ways that the world could kill me.
There's so much pollution in the air now that if it weren't for our lungs there'd be no place to put it all.
Only some people get what they want. Those are the people who show up to get it.
The most important thing she'd learned over the years was that there was no way to be a perfect mother and a million ways to be a good one.
Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.
As I get older, I've learned to listen to people rather than accuse them of things.

Hercule Poirot, a Belgian, used to work in the Police, but by the time of the action he was already retired.

I was as scared as I'd ever been. There was screaming everywhere now, and more bodies on the floor, and the press from behind was as relentless as a bulldozer. It was all I could do to keep on my feet.
To repeat what others have said, requires education; to challenge it, requires brains.
Americans are benevolently ignorant about Canada, while Canadians are malevolently well informed about the United States.
Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.
My father hated radio and could not wait for television to be invented so he could hate that too.
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.

The charity that hastens to proclaim its good deeds, ceases to be charity, and is only pride and ostentation.

The world tolerates conceit from those who are successful, but not from anybody else.
I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.
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.
More bodies were roughly shoved in beside me.
Turn the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles.
All movements go too far.
Even the fear of death is nothing compared to the fear of not having lived authentically and fully.

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

The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is inefficiency. An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty.
All the world's a cage.
Whatever you fear most has no power - it is your fear that has the power.
The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value.
Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up.
Nothing is as simple as we hope it will be.
I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.

Someone's boring me. I think it's me.

You can't deny laughter. When it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.
Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose.
My home is not a place, it is people.
In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
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 have always felt that a politician is to be judged by the animosities he excites among his opponents.
Statistics: The only science that enables different experts using the same figures to draw different conclusions.

The party did not fair as well in other races for national office, and the Democrats made gains in Congress, although the Republicans retained control there.

What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say.
I never met anybody who said when they were a kid, "I wanna grow up and be a critic."
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
Health consists of having the same diseases as one's neighbors.
The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too.
Censorship, like charity, should begin at home; but, unlike charity, it should end there.
Many people weigh the guilt they will feel against the pleasure of the forbidden action they want to take.

They have many TV and radio programs to choose from.

Ask a deeply religious Christian if he?d rather live next to a bearded Muslim that may or may not be plotting a terror attack, or an atheist that may or may not show him how to set up a wireless network in his house. On the scale of prejudice, atheists don?t seem so bad lately.
You never find yourself until you face the truth.
Where facts are few, experts are many.
I hope that when I die, people say about me, 'Boy, that guy sure owed me a lot of money.'
I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars.
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
There is no nonsense so errant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action.

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

Better by far you should forget and smile than you should remember and be sad.
He attacked everything in life with a mix of extrordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which was which.
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'.
If you really do put a small value upon yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price.
True friends are those who really know you but love you anyway.
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 meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

When I was a kid my parents moved a lot, but I always found them.

Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.
The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
When you have got an elephant by the hind leg, and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.
Our patience will achieve more than our force.
There is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income.
A moment later, I caught my breath, but I didn't say anything.
There were millions of ways that the world could kill me.

The Republican victory with Herbert C.

I wanted to flag you down because my friend was bleeding. Someone stabbed him."
Money doesn't always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are no happier than people with nine million dollars.
Better shun the bait, than struggle in the snare.
When you make a mistake, don't look back at it long. Take the reason of the thing into your mind and then look forward. Mistakes are lessons of wisdom. The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.
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.
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
We learn and grow and are transformed not so much by what we do but by why and how we do it.

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.

Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.
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.
Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.
A neurosis is a secret that you don't know you are keeping.
O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.
Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.
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.

Don't mace him!" I shouted over the din. "You'll get us all too.

Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out and minutely articulated.
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.'
Why the hell would terrorists kidnap a bunch of high school students?
Somebody has to do something, and it's just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.
I used to think that the brain was the most wonderful organ in my body. Then I realized who was telling me this.
Van was screaming something and Jolu was shouting and I looked at them for a second and that was when someone put a coarse.
It is wonderful how quickly you get used to things, even the most astonishing.

This humid and mild climate is good for plants. The trees and flowers begin to blossom early in spring.

Part of being creative is learning how to protect your freedom. That includes freedom from avarice.
As a scientist, I am not sure anymore that life can be reduced to a class struggle, to dialectical materialism, or any set of formulas. Life is spontaneous and it is unpredictable, it is magical. I think that we have struggled so hard with the tangible that we have forgotten the intangible.
When they discover the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to discover they are not it.
It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.
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.
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.

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

All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.
People fail forward to success.
A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory.
Sometimes the cure for restlessness is rest.
Neither did the cop car that went past, nor the firetruck, nor the next three cop-cars.
I mean, I knew that in the abstract there were terrorists somewhere in the world, but they didn't really represent any risk to me.
Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit.

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

Students achieving Oneness will move on to Twoness.
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
At my lemonade stand I used to give the first glass away free and charge five dollars for the second glass. The refill contained the antidote.
It was enough to make a body ashamed of the human race.
The first vehicle that screamed past -- an ambulance -- didn't even slow down.
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
Van's sweater was soaked in blood.

Paradise is exactly like where you are right now... only much, much better.

For the night was not impartial. No, the night loved some more than others, served some more than others.
Even the fear of death is nothing compared to the fear of not having lived authentically and fully.
Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.
Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.
People fail forward to success.
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.

If governments wake up to what is happening- perhaps we'll be able to avoid the disaster that threatens the natural world and all of us with it.

I don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is a language I don't understand.
It's important to begin a search on a full stomach.
Make hunger thy sauce, as a medicine for health.
It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.
She screamed as she went down, and I saw her thrashing to get up, but she couldn't, the crowd's pressure was too strong.
My eyes swam and watered and I literally couldn't breathe through the pain.
If we fall, we don't need self-recrimination or blame or anger - we need a reawakening of our intention and a willingness to recommit, to be whole-hearted once again.

nedjelja, 03.10.2010.

A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a man of wit, and a pebble in the hand of a fool.

We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe.
People fail forward to success.
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.
A man can do all things if he but wills them.
Equal opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent.
I'd learned my lesson.
Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.

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

As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
It's very hard to take yourself too seriously when you look at the world from outer space.
God creates men, but they choose each other.
He was one of those men who think that the world can be saved by writing a pamphlet.
The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all of your time.
Equal opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent.
The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value.

I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.

There is an applause superior to that of the multitudes: one's own.
Somebody has to do something, and it's just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.
I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.
Best wide-angle lens? Two steps backward. Look for the 'ah-ha'.
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 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.
Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.

Under Roosevelt's Republican successor and friend, William Howard Taft , "dollar diplomacy" flourished, but a new rift appeared in the party.

A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a man of wit, and a pebble in the hand of a fool.
No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.
As long as you derive inner help and comfort from anything, keep it.
If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.
I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for; perfection is God's business.
Terrorists killed a lot fewer people than bathroom falls and accidental electrocutions.
People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.

"Cutting down" on drinking doesn't work; cutting out alcohol is necessary for a successful recovery.

Better by far you should forget and smile than you should remember and be sad.
It's never just a game when you're winning.
Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.
Have patience awhile; slanders are not long-lived. Truth is the child of time; erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee.
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge.
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.

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

Feet, why do I need them if I have wings to fly?
I wrote myself a check for ten million dollars for acting services rendered and dated it Thanksgiving 1995. I put it in my wallet and it deteriorated. And then, just before Thanksgiving 1995, I found out I was going to make ten million dollars for Dumb & Dumber. I put that check in the casket with my father because it was our dream together.
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.
Innovation has nothing to do with how many R&D dollars you have. When Apple came up with the Mac, IBM was spending at least 100 times more on R&D. It's not about money. It's about the people you have, how you're led, and how much you get it.
Keep cool and you command everybody.
You create your opportunities by asking for them.
I feel very strongly that change is good because it stirs up the system.

Someone went upside my head again.

Peace is when time doesn't matter as it passes by.
If our early lessons of acceptance were as successful as our early lessons of anger, how much happier we would all be.
Do something every day that you don't want to do; this is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.
There is no stigma attached to recognizing a bad decision in time to install a better one.
Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.
Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.
I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!

subota, 02.10.2010.

If our early lessons of acceptance were as successful as our early lessons of anger, how much happier we would all be.

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.
Think of yourself as an incandescent power, illuminated and perhaps forever talked to by God and his messengers.
Let not the sands of time get in your lunch.
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 ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.
The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is inefficiency. An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty.
Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity.

It's not my rule to make hasty conclusions, I prefer to get to know more about a person, then to analyze this information and only then to draw my conclusion.

I despise the pleasure of pleasing people that I despise.
The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
Who were these clowns?
You have no control over what the other guy does. You only have control over what you do.
Normal is not something to aspire to, it's something to get away from.
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.

A further point to consider is how far you will be willing to do for a time things which you do not like knowing that they are necessary to achive your longer term objectives.

One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.
It is hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head.
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 faceless, eyeless armed man above me kept his gun very level.
At my lemonade stand I used to give the first glass away free and charge five dollars for the second glass. The refill contained the antidote.
Vanessa didn't like it, but I figured a cop wasn't going to stop for a kid waving his hat in the street, not that day. They just might stop if they saw Darryl bleeding there, though. I argued briefly with her and Darryl settled it by lurching to his feet and dragging himself down toward Market Street.
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.

The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.

Neither did the cop car that went past, nor the firetruck, nor the next three cop-cars.
The trick is to make sure you don't die waiting for prosperity to come.
See things as they are and write about them. Don?t waste your creative energy trying to make things up. Even if you are writing fiction, write the things you see and know.
I shouted, and earned a hard thump on my head for my trouble.
Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
We all have strength enough to endure the misfortunes of others.
The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all of your time.

It's important to begin a search on a full stomach.

Photographers do this for a living, every single day -- they point their lenses toward every single corner of our world and somehow make the mundane mesmerizing through their artistic eye. It's all a matter of being aware of your surroundings and realizing that there are some really amazing and interesting things to look at, even if it may just be something so simple as a wall being covered up by paint.
The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.
Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
Think of yourself as an incandescent power, illuminated and perhaps forever talked to by God and his messengers.
A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
I like an escalator because an escalator can never break, it can only become stairs. There would never be an escalator temporaly out of order sign, only an escalator temporarily stairs. Sorry for the convenience.

What's another word for Thesaurus?

Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.
Peace is when time doesn't matter as it passes by.
He who is not very strong in memory should not meddle with lying.
If you think taking care of yourself is selfish, change your mind. If you don't, you're simply ducking your responsibilities.
The most important thing she'd learned over the years was that there was no way to be a perfect mother and a million ways to be a good one.
Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
Somebody has to do something, and it's just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.

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

You freeze where you are, time stops, and your heart thunders in your ears.
It is fortunate to be of high birth, but it is no less so to be of such character that people do not care to know whether you are or are not.
Up ahead, I saw someone, a middle-aged lady in a hippie dress, falter and fall.
There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.
If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.
Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
Walking is man's best medicine.

I am not particulaly fond of the cinema.

Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.
At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.
The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
I was sick of cars driving right past me.
Most advances in science come when a person for one reason or another is forced to change fields.
I don't think about risks much. I just do what I want to do. If you gotta go, you gotta go.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.

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

Don't mace him!" I shouted over the din. "You'll get us all too.
Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.
You should not live one way in private, another in public.
Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.
It is wonderful how quickly you get used to things, even the most astonishing.
Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.
Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.

It is not only children and members of family.

Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself...True happiness is born of self-reliance.
More bodies were roughly shoved in beside me.
All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.
Innovation has nothing to do with how many R&D dollars you have. When Apple came up with the Mac, IBM was spending at least 100 times more on R&D. It's not about money. It's about the people you have, how you're led, and how much you get it.
Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.

Skiing combines outdoor fun with knocking down trees with your face.

The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
Sometimes you can't see yourself clearly until you see yourself through the eyes of others.
Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
You don't have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces - just good food from fresh ingredients.
Feet, why do I need them if I have wings to fly?
Time is that quality of nature which keeps events from happening all at once. Lately it doesn't seem to be working.
What some people mistake for the high cost of living is really the cost of high living.

Hedgehogs, hares, rabbits, rats and mice are numerous. Deer live in some of the forests in the Highlands of Scotland and England.

Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
The car slewed to a stop and only then did I notice that it wasn't a cop car, ambulance or fire-engine.
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.
Part of being creative is learning how to protect your freedom. That includes freedom from avarice.
I don't generally feel anything until noon; then it's time for my nap.
You have no control over what the other guy does. You only have control over what you do.
The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.

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

The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too.
If our early lessons of acceptance were as successful as our early lessons of anger, how much happier we would all be.
The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.
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.
Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.
Do not be awe struck by other people and try to copy them. Nobody can be you as efficiently as you can.
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.

When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.

A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.
The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.
A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
Be sincere; be brief; be seated.
A hobby a day keeps the doldrums away.
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.
Depend not on fortune, but on conduct.

Then he examined my throat and said that it was a little inflamed.

Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.
The faceless, eyeless armed man above me kept his gun very level.
Make a decision, even if it's wrong.
The lion and the calf shall lie down together but the calf won't get much sleep.
Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.
The most erroneous stories are those we think we know best - and therefore never scrutinize or question.

Worries go down better with soup than without.

I like to play blackjack. I'm not addicted to gambling, I'm addicted to sitting in a semi-circle.
I have lost friends, some by death... others through sheer inability to cross the street.
Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.
Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.
Better by far you should forget and smile than you should remember and be sad.
There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.
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.

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

As long as you derive inner help and comfort from anything, keep it.
Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present.
There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?
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.
College isn't the place to go for ideas.
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
Electricity is actually made up of extremely tiny particles called electrons, that you cannot see with the naked eye unless you have been drinking.

After all it is those who have a deep and real inner life who are best able to deal with the irritating details of outer life.

A man is too apt to forget that in this world he cannot have everything. A choice is all that is left him.
Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.
I use an optimistic, positive approach to deal with my symptoms and it came the hard way, before I learned to laugh with myself a little.
Make hunger thy sauce, as a medicine for health.
Newspapermen learn to call a murderer 'an alleged murderer' and the King of England 'the alleged King of England' to avoid libel suits.
Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment.
Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.

There is no nonsense so errant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action.

You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
Anger is never without Reason, but seldom with a good One.
No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
It's so much easier to write a resume than to craft a spirit.
We think in generalities, but we live in detail.

It is surrounded by exceedingly hot and dry deserts and steppes; the summer water temperature exceeds 85F (29C), and the water has a high salt content.

I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
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.
Some people make headlines while others make history.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.
Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others.

In the end I'd like to add that there are many types of housing and all the people have the right to choose where to live.

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?
If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.
Everyone wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant.
Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.
If there's one thing I know it's God does love a good joke.
Never does the human soul appear so strong and noble as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury.
People will buy anything that is one to a customer.

It is surrounded by exceedingly hot and dry deserts and steppes; the summer water temperature exceeds 85F (29C), and the water has a high salt content.

I am not young enough to know everything.
So quick and so fiercely I barely had time to gasp before it was locked on me.
In the right light, at the right time, everything is extraordinary.
When someone does something good, applaud! You will make two people happy.
The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said.
Anger is never without Reason, but seldom with a good One.
Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life.

There is wide variation in the existence of alcohol policies, in employees' awareness of them, and in their enforcement in workplaces across the country.

There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
For visions come not to polluted eyes.
Depend not on fortune, but on conduct.
If you really do put a small value upon yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price.
Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.
Man is only miserable so far as he thinks himself so.
History is more or less bunk.

Meeting people for the first time we always make a judgment based on their appearances though the proverb tells us not to make such a mistake.

Good taste is the enemy of comedy.
The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.
Never part without loving words to think of during your absence. It may be that you will not meet again in life.
Deeds, not words shall speak me.
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.
The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value.
Men of genius do not excel in any profession because they labor in it, but they labor in it because they excel.

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

Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up.
'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.
There is an evil tendency underlying all our technology - the tendency to do what is reasonable even when it isn't any good.
Act as if it were impossible to fail.
In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the next meal would come from.
Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out and minutely articulated.
They weren't wearing insignia.

Our flat is very warm and cosy, so it makes any person feel at home.

Music is essentially useless, as life is.
It's a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn't want to hear.
As long as you derive inner help and comfort from anything, keep it.
No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.
Someone's boring me. I think it's me.
You know what's interesting about Washington? It's the kind of place where second-guessing has become second nature.
Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.

Moose convention chose Roosevelt to lead the new Progressive party ticket.

Is love supposed to last throughout all time, or is it like trains changing at random stops. If I loved her, how could I leave her? If I felt that way then, how come I don't feel anything now?
Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality.
Never eat more than you can lift.
If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.
Turn the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles.

It is only possible to live happily ever after on a day-to-day basis.

The most important thing she'd learned over the years was that there was no way to be a perfect mother and a million ways to be a good one.
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.
Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality.
I have always felt that a politician is to be judged by the animosities he excites among his opponents.
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.
Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth?Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.
A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.

The warm days of early autumn arc called the "Indian Summer" and it is really beautiful with its yellow, red and brown trees and golden leaves falling down.

Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.
The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star.
I know that you believe that you understood what you think I said, but I am not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.
The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all of your time.
Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid.
If you don't know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else.
The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value.

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

We are made to persist. That's how we find out who we are.
Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable.
It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.
It is hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head.
One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.
Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone.
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.

So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.

Man is only miserable so far as he thinks himself so.
Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.
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.
I don't think about risks much. I just do what I want to do. If you gotta go, you gotta go.
It's all right to have butterflies in your stomach. Just get them to fly in formation.
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
Sometimes you can't see yourself clearly until you see yourself through the eyes of others.

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

What's another word for Thesaurus?
Never despair; but if you do, work on in despair.
The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.
They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.
But be, as you have been, my happiness...
The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.
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.

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. Happines

Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.
We cannot destroy kindred: Our chains stretch a little sometimes, but they never break.
Statistics: The only science that enables different experts using the same figures to draw different conclusions.
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.
Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
Make hunger thy sauce, as a medicine for health.
If your parents never had children, chances are you won't, either.

Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.

Depend not on fortune, but on conduct.
Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.
Keep your broken arm inside your sleeve.
I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.
What makes the engine go? Desire, desire, desire.
We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.
Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.