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ponedjeljak, 29.11.2010.

I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.

As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.
In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from.
All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.
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.
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.
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.

Finns like to eat hot sausages and drink beer in the streets; many Philipinos prefer to eat with their hands.

Never part without loving words to think of during your absence. It may be that you will not meet again in life.
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 never know how much of what I say is true.
Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit.
To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all.
There is a tragic flaw in our precious Constitution, and I don't know what can be done to fix it. This is it: Only nut cases want to be president.
The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.

My father hated radio and could not wait for television to be invented so he could hate that too.

I despise the pleasure of pleasing people that I despise.
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.
Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.
Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
Time is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. Truth is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. You don't need anything else.
If you refuse to be made straight when you are green, you will not be made straight when you are dry.
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.

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

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.
Nothing in the world can take the place of Persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan 'Press On' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.
The Americans have need of the telephone, but we do not. We have plenty of messenger boys.
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.
The roses, the lovely notes, the dining and dancing are all welcome and splendid. But when the Godiva is gone, the gift of real love is having someone who'll go the distance with you. Someone who, when the wedding day limo breaks down, is willing to share a seat on the bus.
O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.
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.

Tropical fruit and flowers grow on the beautiful islands.

It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.
Do what you feel in your heart to be right - for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't.
The lesson which life repeats and constantly enforces is 'look under foot.' You are always nearer the divine and the true sources of your power than you think.
It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.
The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth that it prevents you from achieving.
People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.
Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn whatever state I am in, therin to be content

The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.

Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you.
Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.
Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
Better by far you should forget and smile than you should remember and be sad.
As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
Censorship, like charity, should begin at home; but, unlike charity, it should end there.
Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves.

If a book appeals to you, it arouses lots of feelings and emotions in your heart.

Sometimes love will pick you up by the short hairs...and jerk the heck out of you.
Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
In an industrial society which confuses work and productivity, the necessity of producing has always been an enemy of the desire to create.
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.'
I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
Nothing is so awesomely unfamiliar as the familiar that discloses itself at the end of a journey.

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

Memory feeds imagination.
You can't just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they'll want something new.
More movement, and the sense of bodies being shackled in alongside of me.
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.
Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out and minutely articulated.
For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.

You don't have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces - just good food from fresh ingredients.

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 was sick of cars driving right past me.
Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.
Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
The first vehicle that screamed past -- an ambulance -- didn't even slow down.
We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.
Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.

subota, 27.11.2010.

It is hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head.

Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid.
Inspiration does exist, but it must find you working.
It had only one fault. It was kind of lousy.
You create your opportunities by asking for them.
Truly great madness cannot be achieved without significant intelligence.
When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.
A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.

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

You have to recognize when the right place and the right time fuse and take advantage of that opportunity. There are plenty of opportunities out there. You can't sit back and wait.
Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.
God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain.
Nothing is said that has not been said before.
A tactical retreat is not a bad response to a surprise assault, you know. First you survive. Then you choose your own ground. Then you counterattack.
Things won are done; joy's soul lies in the doing.

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

The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.
Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.
The roses, the lovely notes, the dining and dancing are all welcome and splendid. But when the Godiva is gone, the gift of real love is having someone who'll go the distance with you. Someone who, when the wedding day limo breaks down, is willing to share a seat on the bus.
The faceless, eyeless armed man above me kept his gun very level.
I stand in awe of my body.
It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.

Hope is tomorrow's veneer over today's disappointment.

Get pleasure out of life...as much as you can. Nobody ever died from pleasure.
I gathered we were headed over Nob Hill, and from the angle, it seemed we were taking one of the steeper routes.
A chess genius is a human being who focuses vast, little-understood mental gifts and labors on an ultimately trivial human enterprise.
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.
The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
TV is chewing gum for the eyes.
It is not enough to do good; one must do it the right way.

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

Nothing is impossible. Some things are just less likely than others.
The Past is to be respected and acknoledged, but not to be worshiped. It is our future in which we will find our greatness.
Even the fear of death is nothing compared to the fear of not having lived authentically and fully.
When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.
Early morning cheerfulness can be extremely obnoxious.
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!
Beware the pull on your heartstrings -- it's often the pursestrings that are actually being reached for.

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

You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans.
I got up the third step and reached for the fourth, but it wasn't there.
Experience is a good teacher, but she send in terrific bills.
Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.
I am not sincere, even when I say I am not.
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?
Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to be caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self.

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

I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
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.
Well done is better than well said.
Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
There is an applause superior to that of the multitudes: one's own.
The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.
Don't mace him!" I shouted over the din. "You'll get us all too.

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

There is an evil tendency underlying all our technology - the tendency to do what is reasonable even when it isn't any good.
A rumor without a leg to stand on will get around some other way.
Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.
The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.
Nothing is so awesomely unfamiliar as the familiar that discloses itself at the end of a journey.
The crux... is that the vast majority of the mass of the universe seems to be missing.
Having a holiday weekend without a family member felt like putting on a sweater that had an extra arm.

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

Do something. If it doesn't work, do something else. No idea is too crazy.
There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.
We are what we repeatedly do.
I never vote for anyone; I always vote against.
Nothing is so good for an ignorant man as silence; and if he was sensible of this he would not be ignorant.
Act as if it were impossible to fail.
Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.

The Americans have need of the telephone, but we do not. We have plenty of messenger boys.

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.
Americans are benevolently ignorant about Canada, while Canadians are malevolently well informed about the United States.
Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality.
Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.
You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.
What's the earth With all its art, verse, music, worth - Compared with love, found, gained, and kept?

Passengers must register their tickets, weigh in and register the luggage.

My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
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.
The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility.
There is no nonsense so errant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action.
I believe that every now and then it is important to laugh at ourselves and take a lighter approach to our life conditions.
It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.
If you refuse to be made straight when you are green, you will not be made straight when you are dry.

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

Experience is a good teacher, but she send in terrific bills.
Statistics: The only science that enables different experts using the same figures to draw different conclusions.
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.
A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of.
If my mental map was right, we were heading down to Fisherman's Wharf.
We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.
Nothing is as simple as we hope it will be.

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.

If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.
The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
Neither did the cop car that went past, nor the firetruck, nor the next three cop-cars.
A sympathetic Scot summed it all up very neatly in the remark, "You should make a point of trying every experience once, excepting incest and folk dancing."
Nothing is impossible. Some things are just less likely than others.
I never vote for anyone; I always vote against.
It is hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head.

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

Rest is the sweet sauce of labor.
A sympathetic Scot summed it all up very neatly in the remark, "You should make a point of trying every experience once, excepting incest and folk dancing."
Your parents, they give you your life, but then they try to give you their life.
It's the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion.
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'.
It's very hard to take yourself too seriously when you look at the world from outer space.
We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.

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

Skiing combines outdoor fun with knocking down trees with your face.
The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.
TV is chewing gum for the eyes.
We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.
I went up the stairs cautiously, not able to use my hands.
Take a two-mile walk every morning before breakfast.
Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth?Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.

In 10 days I fully recovered and resumed my studies.

Never part without loving words to think of during your absence. It may be that you will not meet again in life.
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.
As I get older, I've learned to listen to people rather than accuse them of things.
We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.
Let not the sands of time get in your lunch.
Man is only miserable so far as he thinks himself so.
A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them.

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.

Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.
Intimacy is being seen and known as the person you truly are.
Fall is my favorite season in Los Angeles, watching the birds change color and fall from the trees.
Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.
I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for; perfection is God's business.
It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.
Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.

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

No great improvements in the lot of mankind are possible until a great change takes place in the fundamental constitution of their modes of thought.
It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't.
Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.
Art is science made clear.
Now is the time for all good men to come to.
Let me tell you, quite frankly, it took a while and a lot of therapy to get here.
An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought.

That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.

Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up.
I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education.
One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.
The undertaking of a new action brings new strength.
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.
Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.
I like to play blackjack. I'm not addicted to gambling, I'm addicted to sitting in a semi-circle.

There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.

There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
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.
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.
It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.
...happiness gives us the energy which is the basis of health.
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.
America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.

People fail forward to success.

Summer afternoon - Summer afternoon... the two most beautiful words in the English language.
Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.
To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.
Know, first, who you are; and then adorn yourself accordingly.
What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!
We do not believe if we do not live and work according to our belief.
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?

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.

Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable.
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've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play.
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 keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.
Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.
The art of dining well is no slight art, the pleasure not a slight pleasure.

We came to the theatre long before the perfomance began.

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.
A hobby a day keeps the doldrums away.
It is never too late to give up our prejudices.
The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value.
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.
We cannot destroy kindred: Our chains stretch a little sometimes, but they never break.
It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.

ponedjeljak, 22.11.2010.

Usually such people keep the poultry and the cattle.

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.
Better shun the bait, than struggle in the snare.
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.
We rarely think people have good sense unless they agree with us.
You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.
Worries go down better with soup than without.
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.

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

It was a military-looking Jeep, like an armored Hummer, only it didn't have any military insignia on it.
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 reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.
I don't like composers who think. It gets in the way of their plagiarism.
I have always felt that a politician is to be judged by the animosities he excites among his opponents.
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.

Dance is the hidden language of the soul.

I was the kid next door's imaginary friend.
I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.
At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.
Neither did the cop car that went past, nor the firetruck, nor the next three cop-cars.
The older I grow, the less important the comma becomes. Let the reader catch his own breath.
Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
What children take from us, they give?We become people who feel more deeply, question more deeply, hurt more deeply, and love more deeply.

If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.

Truly great madness cannot be achieved without significant intelligence.
If you really do put a small value upon yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price.
I gathered we were headed over Nob Hill, and from the angle, it seemed we were taking one of the steeper routes.
If your parents never had children, chances are you won't, either.
Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.
Your parents, they give you your life, but then they try to give you their life.
Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.

There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.

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 wanted to flag you down because my friend was bleeding. Someone stabbed him."
The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
I'd learned my lesson.
College isn't the place to go for ideas.
There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.
We can be sure that the greatest hope for maintaining equilibrium in the face of any situation rests within ourselves.

Without the capacity to provide its own information, the mind drifts into randomness.

Never does the human soul appear so strong and noble as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury.
The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.
Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others.
I don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is a language I don't understand.
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.
Don't mace him!" I shouted over the din. "You'll get us all too.
Even the best of friends need time apart.

Republicans unseated long-time Democratic incumbents, winning control of both houses of Congress (for the first time since the 1950s) and claiming several governorships.

I have lost friends, some by death... others through sheer inability to cross the street.
It really doesn't matter if the person who hurt you deserves to be forgiven. Forgiveness is a gift you give yourself. You have things to do and you want to move on.
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.
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.
For visions come not to polluted eyes.
The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
The creative is the place where no one else has ever been. You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover will be yourself.

Listen. Do not have an opinion while you listen because frankly, your opinion doesn?t hold much water outside of Your Universe. Just listen. Listen until their brain has been twisted like a dripping towel and what they have to say is all over the floor.

The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco.
There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.
Fall is my favorite season in Los Angeles, watching the birds change color and fall from the trees.
Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.
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 bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
I say luck is when an opportunity comes along, and you're prepared for it.

Every daily paper publishes a weather forecast. Both the radio and television give the weather forecast several times each day.

You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.
There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.
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.
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.
A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.
Someone's boring me. I think it's me.

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

To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.
On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily lying down.
When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers.
No.
I like to play blackjack. I'm not addicted to gambling, I'm addicted to sitting in a semi-circle.
I?m telling you, things are getting out of hand. Or maybe I?m discovering that things were never in my hands.
You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.

Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy those are who already possess it.

If the only prayer you ever say in your whole life is "thank you," that would suffice.
Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you.
Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
At the mention of the word mace, the guy looked scared and kind of melted back, though the crowd kept him moving forward.
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.
It is never too late to give up our prejudices.
The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all of your time.

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

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 is not much for its beauty that makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanates from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.
Be more prompt to go to a friend in adversity than in prosperity.
Hope is tomorrow's veneer over today's disappointment.
I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for; perfection is God's business.
The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.
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.

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

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.
After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.
Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch.
Never despair; but if you do, work on in despair.
You don't have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces - just good food from fresh ingredients.
A moment later, I caught my breath, but I didn't say anything.
It's very hard to take yourself too seriously when you look at the world from outer space.

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

You have to recognize when the right place and the right time fuse and take advantage of that opportunity. There are plenty of opportunities out there. You can't sit back and wait.
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.
Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.
It was enough to make a body ashamed of the human race.
Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
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 don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.

Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.

A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
A man can do all things if he but wills them.
History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.
Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.
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.
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.
Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.

One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.

The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry is like the potato - the best part under ground.
He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
Censorship, like charity, should begin at home; but, unlike charity, it should end there.
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.
What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?
I feel very strongly that change is good because it stirs up the system.

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

Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
Oh, I don't blame Congress. If I had $600 billion at my disposal, I'd be irresponsible, too.
I have always felt that a politician is to be judged by the animosities he excites among his opponents.
Optimism and hope are our best friends. Let?s reach out and Laugh together at our confounding traits and still, let?s keep in mind that our sympt oms and traits are very real with consequences, never to be underestimated or discounted.
If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.
I looked up and saw a bunch of military-looking guys in coveralls, holding big, bulky rifles and wearing hooded gas masks with tinted face-plates.
I 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.

There are five universities in the city.

The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but how to get old ones out. Every mind is a building filled with archaic furniture. Clean out a corner of your mind and creativity will instantly fill it.
A man can do all things if he but wills them.
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.
Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.
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.
Love truth, and pardon error.
All great truths begin as blasphemies.

The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.

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.
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.
Everybody likes to go their own way--to choose their own time and manner of devotion.
There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.
As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
It's so much easier to write a resume than to craft a spirit.
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.

Dairy products provide us with calcium, meat provide our bodies with protein, iron, zinc.

Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it.
I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.
Keep your broken arm inside your sleeve.
The hands behind me gave me another shove.
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.
O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.

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

Sometimes you can't see yourself clearly until you see yourself through the eyes of others.
The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.
Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.
We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.
Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.
It is impossible to walk rapidly and be unhappy.
Think of yourself as an incandescent power, illuminated and perhaps forever talked to by God and his messengers.

The domestic program of the Eisenhower adminstration was moderately conservative, and in foreign policy the internationalist approach of the previous Democratic administration was continued. Despite the President's overwhelming personal popularity and hi

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?
A poem is no place for an idea.
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.
Howard Hughes was able to afford the luxury of madness, like a man who not only thinks he is Napoleon but hires an army to prove it.
I 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.
Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn't block traffic.
It's all right to have butterflies in your stomach. Just get them to fly in formation.

utorak, 09.11.2010.

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.

If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.
Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.
Life engenders life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.
There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.
I have a simple philosophy. Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. And scratch where it itches.
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.

Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.

Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment.
Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.
You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.
If men could only know each other, they would neither idolize nor hate.
Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.
Know, first, who you are; and then adorn yourself accordingly.
He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.

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.

One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.
A joke's a very serious thing.
The most important thing she'd learned over the years was that there was no way to be a perfect mother and a million ways to be a good one.
I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.
He who boasts of his ancestry is praising the deeds of another.
You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are; but you must approach each man by the right door.
Well done is better than well said.

A person under 16 years of age may see an "A" filem only in company of an adult.

There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.
It's the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion.
Learn the art of patience. Apply discipline to your thoughts when they become anxious over the outcome of a goal. Impatience breeds anxiety, fear, discouragement and failure. Patience creates confidence, decisiveness, and a rational outlook, which eventually leads to success.
Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.
Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality.
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.

It is not surprising because we are living in a world of growing international trade and expanding economic and technical cooperation.

No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.
The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
Do not be awe struck by other people and try to copy them. Nobody can be you as efficiently as you can.
The toughest question has always been, "How do you get your ideas?" How do you answer that? It's like asking runners how they run, or singers how they sing. They just do it!
Intimacy is being seen and known as the person you truly are.
You should not live one way in private, another in public.
Vegetarianism is harmless enough, though it is apt to fill a man with wind and self-righteousness.

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

Never let the demands of tomorrow interfere with the pleasures and excitement of today.
Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers.
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.
I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.

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

Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.
I'd never really believed in terrorists before.
A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them.
Even the best of friends need time apart.
Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.
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 only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too.

In Russia the weather is very cold in winter in winter and very warm in summer, people usually wear too much clothes in winter ? warm sweaters, jeans, tights, winter boots and fur-coats, mittens, scarves, hats and other warm things.

It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.
Without the capacity to provide its own information, the mind drifts into randomness.
The more freedom we enjoy, the greater the responsibility we bear, toward others as well as ourselves.
Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousand of miles and all the years you have lived.
Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.
Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.
The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.

Even the best of friends need time apart.

If you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome; if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent; if you believe the military, nothing is safe.
Time is that quality of nature which keeps events from happening all at once. Lately it doesn't seem to be working.
If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.
I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.
If you scatter thorns, don't go barefoot.
Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality.
To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level.

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

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.
Time is that quality of nature which keeps events from happening all at once. Lately it doesn't seem to be working.
Go often to the house of thy friend; for weeds soon choke up the unused path.
I believe that every now and then it is important to laugh at ourselves and take a lighter approach to our life conditions.
Life engenders life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.
Hearing voices no one else can hear isn't a good sign, even in the wizarding world.
It is not enough to aim; you must hit.

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

The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.
Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
I cried out and my own voice was muffled by the hood.
There is no nonsense so errant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action.
When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.
Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.
I was in total darkness now and I strained my ears to hear what was going on with my friends.

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

You don't stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop laughing.
Do something. If it doesn't work, do something else. No idea is too crazy.
When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers.
Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life.
We rocked to a stop still on a downslope.
Best wide-angle lens? Two steps backward. Look for the 'ah-ha'.

If a relapse occurs, it is very important to try to stop drinking once again and to get whatever additional support is needed to abstain from drinking.

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.
As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.
Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.
Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few; and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.
Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today.
Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality.

I personally appreciate such people and I believe that happiness is to live your life, to enjoy every day of your life, to be glad to every minute and to receive with thanks everything that life offers you.

Equal opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent.
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.
Nothing is as simple as we hope it will be.
You cannot be mad at somebody who makes you laugh - it's as simple as that.
It felt like they used a baton or something -- it was harder than anyone had ever hit me in the head before.
No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.
If God had wanted us to vote, he would have given us candidates.

Washington is the capital of the USA. It is situated on the Potomac River in the District of Columbia. D. Washington chose the place.

One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.
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.
Think of yourself as an incandescent power, illuminated and perhaps forever talked to by God and his messengers.
A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top .
There are two types of people--those who come into a room and say, 'Well, here I am!' and those who come in and say, 'Ah, there you are.'
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.
A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnecessary.

I have never been especially impressed by the heroics of people who are convinced they are about to change the world. I am more awed by those who struggle to make one small difference after another.

If you think taking care of yourself is selfish, change your mind. If you don't, you're simply ducking your responsibilities.
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.'
Learning to live in the present moment is part of the path of joy.
By prizing heartfulness above faultlessness, we may reap more from our effort because we're more likely to be changed by it.
I have lost friends, some by death... others through sheer inability to cross the street.
Let me tell you, quite frankly, it took a while and a lot of therapy to get here.
Late to bed and late to wake will keep you long on money and short on mistakes.

And there they found Guy Fawker about to fire a trail of gunpowder.

Liberals are very broadminded: they are always willing to give careful consideration to both sides of the same side.
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.
God creates men, but they choose each other.
Is there life before death?
I felt the doors open near me, and then saw a confusion of booted feet moving close by.
When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest.
Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.