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srijeda, 27.07.2011.

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

Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
'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.
While we have the gift of life, it seems to me that only tragedy is to allow part of us to die - whether it is our spirit, our creativity, or our glorious uniqueness.
The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco.
My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists.
Cheerfulness, it would appear, is a matter which depends fully as much on the state of things within, as on the state of things without and around us.

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

Who were these clowns?
Peace is when time doesn't matter as it passes by.
Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.
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.
Sooner or later, we've got to work at it, no matter how many other careers we've had or wanted.
You know what's interesting about Washington? It's the kind of place where second-guessing has become second nature.
To be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.

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

The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
How we remember, what we remember and why we remember form the most personal map of our individuality.
Sometimes the cure for restlessness is rest.
What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?
The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
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.
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.

In Cairo just breathing the air is life threatening- equivalent to smoking two packs of cigarettes a day.

One of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish had been left unsaid.
Sack over my head and cinched it tight around my windpipe.
...happiness gives us the energy which is the basis of health.
The art of dining well is no slight art, the pleasure not a slight pleasure.
I?m telling you, things are getting out of hand. Or maybe I?m discovering that things were never in my hands.
Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a man of wit, and a pebble in the hand of a fool.

It is a good idea to begin by attempting to define in clear terms what your requirements are from a career.

Money doesn't always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are no happier than people with nine million dollars.
It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't.
One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.
There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.
My wish is to ride the tempest, tame the waves, kill the sharks. I will not resign myself...
More movement, and the sense of bodies being shackled in alongside of me.
Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity.

It is wonderful how quickly you get used to things, even the most astonishing.

Good taste is the enemy of comedy.
Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
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.
So little time and so little to do.
If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches.
The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all men, charity.
So quick and so fiercely I barely had time to gasp before it was locked on me.

The people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego ordinary pleasures themselves and find compensation in interfering with the pleasures of others.

The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.
Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out and minutely articulated.
We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.
I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.
Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.
A poem is no place for an idea.
Sometimes love will pick you up by the short hairs...and jerk the heck out of you.

Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke.

The faceless, eyeless armed man above me kept his gun very level.
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.
As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.
It felt like they used a baton or something -- it was harder than anyone had ever hit me in the head before.
Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that you live, if you do.
The crowd gives the leader new strength.
People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.

All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.

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.
Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn't block traffic.
Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.
Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
I was in total darkness now and I strained my ears to hear what was going on with my friends.
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.

A rumor without a leg to stand on will get around some other way.

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.
We are able to laugh when we achieve detachment, if only for a moment.
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.
Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.
Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others.
Take a two-mile walk every morning before breakfast.
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.

A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them.

I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for; perfection is God's business.
Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.
Turn the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles.
To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level.
Confidence is the sexiest thing a woman can have. It's much sexier than any body part.
If the only prayer you ever say in your whole life is "thank you," that would suffice.
I despise the pleasure of pleasing people that I despise.

One of the most important reflections of equity is equal rights in the labor market.

If it weren't for baseball, many kids wouldn't know what a millionaire looked like.
The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.
Whatever you do, do it to the purpose; do it thoroughly, not superficially. Go to the bottom of things. Any thing half done, or half known, is in my mind, neither done nor known at all. Nay, worse, for it often misleads.
I ended up stepping on her stomach as the crowd pushed me past her, but by then I don't think she was feeling anything.
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
Confidence is the sexiest thing a woman can have. It's much sexier than any body part.
Good breeding consists of concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.

Nothing is as simple as we hope it will be.

Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.
It's wonderful what we can do if we're always doing.
How to Raise your I.Q. by Eating Gifted Children
My eyes swam and watered and I literally couldn't breathe through the pain.
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.
We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.

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

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.
Everybody likes a kidder, but nobody lends him money.
Without the capacity to provide its own information, the mind drifts into randomness.
Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.
Van was screaming something and Jolu was shouting and I looked at them for a second and that was when someone put a coarse.
The only difference between a rut and a grave... is in their dimensions.
I stand in awe of my body.

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

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.
Turn the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles.
Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards.
I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.
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.
Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.
A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top .

Each individual woman's body demands to be accepted on its own terms.

It had only one fault. It was kind of lousy.
Nothing is so awesomely unfamiliar as the familiar that discloses itself at the end of a journey.
Optimism and hope are our best friends. Letýs reach out and Laugh together at our confounding traits and still, letýs keep in mind that our sympt oms and traits are very real with consequences, never to be underestimated or discounted.
It's a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn't want to hear.
When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.
I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy!
Art is either plagiarism or revolution.

If nothing is done about it, one day nothing will be able to live in the seas.

I stumbled some, then a hand pushed my head down and I was inside the Hummer.
Laughter is supposed to be the best medicine, however, it should never be at the expense of someoneýs feelings or ignoring truth.
When they discover the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to discover they are not it.
If my mental map was right, we were heading down to Fisherman's Wharf.
You create your opportunities by asking for them.
Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.
I was pushed roughly but dispassionately onto my stomach and something went twice around my wrists and then tightened up as well, feeling like baling wire and biting cruelly.

The first voyage was to a strange country Lilliput.

I never met anybody who said when they were a kid, "I wanna grow up and be a critic."
Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.
The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco.
Make hunger thy sauce, as a medicine for health.
Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.

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

Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality.
Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn't block traffic.
I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!
Never let the demands of tomorrow interfere with the pleasures and excitement of today.
A man can do all things if he but wills them.
Never rely on the glory of the morning nor the smiles of your mother-in-law.
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.

When we take a book, we mustn't do dog's ears, we mustn't write anything on the pages, and we must return books to the library in time.

Do not be awe struck by other people and try to copy them. Nobody can be you as efficiently as you can.
When we are unhurried and wise, we perceive that only great and worthy things have any permanent and absolute existence, that petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of the reality.
It's very hard to take yourself too seriously when you look at the world from outer space.
They can conquer who believe they can.
Know, first, who you are; and then adorn yourself accordingly.
The mellow sweetness of pumpkin pie off a prison spoon is something you will never forget.
We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.

Now I like to read books on science, history and biology.

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.
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.
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 trouble with being poor is that it takes up all of your time.
Keep true to the dreams of thy youth.
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.
Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.

To be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.

The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.
Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, not swallowed.
The older I grow, the less important the comma becomes. Let the reader catch his own breath.
Truth has beauty, power and necessity.
A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them.
As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.

petak, 22.07.2011.

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

I've been on a diet for two weeks and all I've lost is two weeks.
To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level.
The most erroneous stories are those we think we know best - and therefore never scrutinize or question.
You can only cure retail but you can prevent .
We are always in search of the redeeming formula, the crystallizing thought.
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.
Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.

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

I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.
My head rang like a gong.
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.'
Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
Life is consciousness.
Electricity is actually made up of extremely tiny particles called electrons, that you cannot see with the naked eye unless you have been drinking.
The two symbols of the Republican Party: an elephant, and a big fat white guy who is threatened by change.

Everybody likes a kidder, but nobody lends him money.

Time is that quality of nature which keeps events from happening all at once. Lately it doesn't seem to be working.
Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.
The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.
We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.
Anything looked at closely becomes wonderful.
We succeed only as we identify in life, or in war, or in anything else, a single overriding objective, and make all other considerations bend to that one objective.
Sack over my head and cinched it tight around my windpipe.

The wrong side of the bed was the left side.

I had no idea how much of this was making it through the muffling bag.
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.
The average person thinks he isn't.
The pain of making the necessary sacrifices always hurts more than you think it's going to. I know. It sucks. That being said, doing something seriously creative is one of the most amazing experiences one can have, in this or any other lifetime. If you can pull it off, it's worth it. Even if you don't end up pulling it off, you'll learn many incredible, magical, valuable things. It's NOT doing it when you know you full well you HAD the opportunity- that hurts FAR more than any failure.
If you don't know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else.
To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.
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.

Many people weigh the guilt they will feel against the pleasure of the forbidden action they want to take.

Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anyone else.
Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.
Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it.
Some people make headlines while others make history.
We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it.
Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.
The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.

He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.

We may not imagine how our lives could be more frustrating and complex--but Congress can.
Nothing is so awesomely unfamiliar as the familiar that discloses itself at the end of a journey.
Seize opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind.
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.
A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down.
Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that's where you renew your springs that never dry up.
Temptation rarely comes in working hours. It is in their leisure time that men are made or marred.

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

I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that you live, if you do.
It is never too late to give up our prejudices.
O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.
There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.
He had learned over the years that poor people did not feel so poor when allowed to give occasionally.

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

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.
I phoned my dad to tell him I had stopped smoking. He called me a quitter.
Exercise ferments the humors, casts them into their proper channels, throws off redundancies, and helps nature in those secret distributions, without which the body cannot subsist in its vigor, nor the soul act with cheerfulness.
There is no nonsense so errant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action.
I went up the stairs cautiously, not able to use my hands.
The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.

Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day.

The charity that hastens to proclaim its good deeds, ceases to be charity, and is only pride and ostentation.
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.
One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.
In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the next meal would come from.
Let me tell you, quite frankly, it took a while and a lot of therapy to get here.
Good taste is the enemy of comedy.
Anything looked at closely becomes wonderful.

Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.

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.
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.
People will buy anything that is one to a customer.
Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper.
Never rely on the glory of the morning nor the smiles of your mother-in-law.
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.
The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.

Stimson and Frank Knox , were virtually read out of the party for accepting posts in Roosevelt's cabinet.

We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
You cannot be mad at somebody who makes you laugh - it's as simple as that.
There is an evil tendency underlying all our technology - the tendency to do what is reasonable even when it isn't any good.
I cried out and my own voice was muffled by the hood.
The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.
A rumor without a leg to stand on will get around some other way.
Intimacy is what makes a marriage, not a ceremony, not a piece of paper from the state.

The average person thinks he isn't.

When someone does something good, applaud! You will make two people happy.
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.
I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education.
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
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.
We learn and grow and are transformed not so much by what we do but by why and how we do it.
I don't like composers who think. It gets in the way of their plagiarism.

No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.

If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.
The 'Net is a waste of time, and that's exactly what's right about it.
A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.
Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.
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.
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.
Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality.

My best friend's name is Nina, we are friends for many ages; but I can never forget our first meeting. It was in summer when our families decided to rest in the south together.

I barely had time to register them before those rifles were pointed at me.
The car rocked back and forth and tipped uphill.
We rarely think people have good sense unless they agree with us.
The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it.
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.
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.
My home is not a place, it is people.

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

Looks are part of business. A businessman should never stand out more than his customers. His mannerisms, his clothes, everything about him... Moderation is the key.
The scornful nostril and the high head gather not the odors that lie on the track of truth.
I never know how much of what I say is true.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
I'd never looked down the barrel of a gun before, but everything you've heard about the experience is true.
Talking with you is sort of the conversational equivalent of an out of body experience.
Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality.

Union military failures early in the war and conservative opposition to such measures as the Emancipation Proclamation caused the party to lose ground in the Congressional elections of 1862. But despite mutterings against his leadership, Lincoln, renomina

Use what you have to run toward your best - that's how I now live my life.
Statistics: The only science that enables different experts using the same figures to draw different conclusions.
Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives.
How could you be a Great Man if history brought you no Great Events, or brought you to them at the wrong time, too young, too old?
I wrote myself a check for ten million dollars for acting services rendered and dated it Thanksgiving 1995. I put it in my wallet and it deteriorated. And then, just before Thanksgiving 1995, I found out I was going to make ten million dollars for Dumb & Dumber. I put that check in the casket with my father because it was our dream together.
Never does the human soul appear so strong and noble as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury.
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.

Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.

If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.
Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.
He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.
Sometimes love will pick you up by the short hairs...and jerk the heck out of you.
You have to have funny faces and words, you can't just have words. It is a powerful thing, and I think that's why it's hard for people to imagine that women can do that, be that powerful.
Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.
Self-importance is our greatest enemy. Think about it - what weakens us is feeling offended by the deeds and misdeeds of our fellowmen. Our self-importance requires that we spend most of our lives offended by someone.

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

Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
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.
You cannot be mad at somebody who makes you laugh - it's as simple as that.
As long as you derive inner help and comfort from anything, keep it.
Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
Someone went upside my head again.

I'm extremely fond of reading.

Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.
If my mental map was right, we were heading down to Fisherman's Wharf.
Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time.
Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.
My wish is to ride the tempest, tame the waves, kill the sharks. I will not resign myself...
Electricity is actually made up of extremely tiny particles called electrons, that you cannot see with the naked eye unless you have been drinking.

At that time the crucial issue of the extension of slavery into the territories split the Democratic party and the Whig party , and opponents of the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 organized the new Republican party. Jackson, Mich., is called the birthplace o

Bacchus hath drowned more men than Neptune.
Skiing combines outdoor fun with knocking down trees with your face.
One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.
Write a wise saying and your name will live forever.
You freeze where you are, time stops, and your heart thunders in your ears.
The Past is to be respected and acknoledged, but not to be worshiped. It is our future in which we will find our greatness.
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.

We are able to laugh when we achieve detachment, if only for a moment.

Turn the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles.
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.
It is not enough to aim; you must hit.
Sometimes love will pick you up by the short hairs...and jerk the heck out of you.
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.
Equal opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent.

When settlement began in 1788 the continent was inhabited by about 300 000 people, who are now called aborigines.

This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer.
I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
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.
A joke's a very serious thing.
The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.
Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.

There are also those who like semi-detached houses or, as the Americans call them, duplexes.

He who boasts of his ancestry is praising the deeds of another.
One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.
Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.
There were millions of ways that the world could kill me.
It's a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn't want to hear.
Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day.
It is 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.

Some of the chapters seem to be written with different styles, and others are geared for different ages, leading one to believe that he inserted other mathematicians' work into his own.

The mellow sweetness of pumpkin pie off a prison spoon is something you will never forget.
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 hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.
Van was screaming something and Jolu was shouting and I looked at them for a second and that was when someone put a coarse.
There were millions of ways that the world could kill me.
Seize opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind.
You must not think me necessarily foolish because I am facetious, nor will I consider you necessarily wise because you are grave.

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

You have no control over what the other guy does. You only have control over what you do.
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.
When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time.
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.
Now we were descending just as steeply.
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.
Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.

I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.

A minute's success pays the failure of years.
Money frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy.
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.
You freeze where you are, time stops, and your heart thunders in your ears.
If your parents never had children, chances are you won't, either.
I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.
College isn't the place to go for ideas.

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

There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.
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.
Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge.
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.
Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.
Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.
The crux... is that the vast majority of the mass of the universe seems to be missing.

I love it because the nature wakes up ý trees are in blossom, the green grass grows up, the sun shines, birds singýbeautiful!

Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.
The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
None are so busy as the fool and knave.
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.
Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.
When all is said and done, the weather and love are the two elements about which one can never be sure.

The summer months are June, July and August.

Art is science made clear.
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.
The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.
Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
Memory feeds imagination.
Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.
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 strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.

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.
We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language.
Be thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till all commend.
Is there life before death?
Starting with getting run down by a drunk burning his way down Valencia -- that were infinitely more likely and immediate than terrorists.
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.
While we have the gift of life, it seems to me that only tragedy is to allow part of us to die - whether it is our spirit, our creativity, or our glorious uniqueness.

Men of genius do not excel in any profession because they labor in it, but they labor in it because they excel.

It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.
Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.
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.
He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.
You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play.
Use what you have to run toward your best - that's how I now live my life.
I phoned my dad to tell him I had stopped smoking. He called me a quitter.

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

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.
If you scatter thorns, don't go barefoot.
It is never too late to give up our prejudices.
The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.
But be, as you have been, my happiness...
You couldn't even prove the White House staff sane beyond a reasonable doubt.
A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of.

The seas are in danger.

You must not think me necessarily foolish because I am facetious, nor will I consider you necessarily wise because you are grave.
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.
Cheerfulness, it would appear, is a matter which depends fully as much on the state of things within, as on the state of things without and around us.
Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.
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.
Doubt 'til thou canst doubt no more...doubt is thought and thought is life. Systems which end doubt are devices for drugging thought.
A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms.

He said that is was a light case of the flu and told me to stay in bed and to have a rest.

If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.
A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a man of wit, and a pebble in the hand of a fool.
In an industrial society which confuses work and productivity, the necessity of producing has always been an enemy of the desire to create.
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.
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.
You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans.
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.

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

Cheerfulness, it would appear, is a matter which depends fully as much on the state of things within, as on the state of things without and around us.
Vegetarianism is harmless enough, though it is apt to fill a man with wind and self-righteousness.
I don't like composers who think. It gets in the way of their plagiarism.
Anger is never without Reason, but seldom with a good One.
Look at all the sentences which seem true and question them.
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.'
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.

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

I had no idea how much of this was making it through the muffling bag.
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.
Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
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 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.
There is an evil tendency underlying all our technology - the tendency to do what is reasonable even when it isn't any good.
We are always in search of the redeeming formula, the crystallizing thought.

The engine died and then the doors swung open.

The next time a car appeared down Market Street, I stepped right out into the road, waving my arms over my head, shouting.
I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.
Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.
Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.
It's very hard to take yourself too seriously when you look at the world from outer space.
One of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish had been left unsaid.
There is surely a piece of divinity in us, something that was before the elements, and owes no homage unto the sun.

Relapses are very common and do not mean that a person has failed or cannot eventually recover from alcoholism.

I'd never really believed in terrorists before.
They weren't wearing insignia.
The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out the conservative adopts them.
The 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.
Darryl wasn't in good shape -- he was white-faced and panting.
If there's one thing I know it's God does love a good joke.
Get pleasure out of life...as much as you can. Nobody ever died from pleasure.

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

We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.
What some people mistake for the high cost of living is really the cost of high living.
It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
I like to play blackjack. I'm not addicted to gambling, I'm addicted to sitting in a semi-circle.
I felt the doors open near me, and then saw a confusion of booted feet moving close by.

The Iran-contra affair, which broke in late 1986, marred the last years of his tenure, though his vice-president, George H. W. Bush, was nonetheless able to defeat the Democratic nominee, MichaelDukakis, in the 1988 election.

You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.
Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards.
This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer.
I must create a system, or be enslaved by another man's.
Art is science made clear.
What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?
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.

Her room is very cool and light, there are plenty of flowers here, as she has a green thumb.

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
I barely had time to register them before those rifles were pointed at me.
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.
The car rocked back and forth and tipped uphill.
A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down.
Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
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.

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

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.
The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.
Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
The scornful nostril and the high head gather not the odors that lie on the track of truth.
If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.
If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk?

We were in the open concourse where the turnstiles were. It was hardly any better here -- the enclosed space sent the voices around us echoing back in a roar that made my head ring, and the smell and feeling of all those bodies made me feel a claustrophob

It is not enough to do good; one must do it the right way.
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!'
Nobody is ever met at the airport when beginning a new adventure. It's just not done.
Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.
Maybe the most any of us can expect of ourselves isn't perfection but progress.
It's so much easier to write a resume than to craft a spirit.
Is there life before death?

When all is said and done, the weather and love are the two elements about which one can never be sure.

All great truths begin as blasphemies.
Optimism and hope are our best friends. Letýs reach out and Laugh together at our confounding traits and still, letýs keep in mind that our sympt oms and traits are very real with consequences, never to be underestimated or discounted.
Good taste is the enemy of comedy.
I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.
There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.
Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.

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

Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day, it will make itself felt at the end of the year.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
Life engenders life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.
Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.
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.
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.
Fresh clean sheets are one of life's small joys.