Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.
Who were these clowns?
My home is not a place, it is people.
It's never just a game when you're winning.
You must not think me necessarily foolish because I am facetious, nor will I consider you necessarily wise because you are grave.
Speak when you are angry--and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret.
The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is inefficiency. An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty.
Up ahead, I saw someone, a middle-aged lady in a hippie dress, falter and fall.
Thomas Jefferson once said, 'We should never judge a president by his age, only by his works.' And ever since he told me that, I stopped worrying.
So little time and so little to do.
All movements go too far.
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?
Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality.
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.
It was a military-looking Jeep, like an armored Hummer, only it didn't have any military insignia on it.
Order is not pressure which is imposed on society from without, but an equilibrium which is set up from within.
Good taste is the enemy of comedy.
Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.
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.'
The great thing about a computer notebook is that no matter how much you stuff into it, it doesn't get bigger or heavier.
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.
I had no idea how much of this was making it through the muffling bag.
The strongest possible piece of advice I would give any young woman is: Don't screw around, and don't smoke.
Have patience awhile; slanders are not long-lived. Truth is the child of time; erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee.
Things are only impossible until they're not.
I guess we'd be living in a boring, perfect world if everybody wished everybody else well.
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.
Ask a deeply religious Christian if he?d rather live next to a bearded Muslim that may or may not be plotting a terror attack, or an atheist that may or may not show him how to set up a wireless network in his house. On the scale of prejudice, atheists don?t seem so bad lately.
Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity.
Whatever you fear most has no power - it is your fear that has the power.
How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!
College isn't the place to go for ideas.
Make a decision, even if it's wrong.
Who were these clowns?
Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life.
All great truths begin as blasphemies.
It's all right to have butterflies in your stomach. Just get them to fly in formation.
If you refuse to be made straight when you are green, you will not be made straight when you are dry.
Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.
If my mental map was right, we were heading down to Fisherman's Wharf.
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.
If you really do put a small value upon yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price.
Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
The habit of giving only enhances the desire to give.
The only difference between a rut and a grave... is in their dimensions.
Sorrow was like the wind. It came in gusts.
'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.
Arguments are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often convincing.
Inspiration does exist, but it must find you working.
It is not enough to aim; you must hit.
Without the capacity to provide its own information, the mind drifts into randomness.
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.
More bodies were roughly shoved in beside me.
Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.
Never let the demands of tomorrow interfere with the pleasures and excitement of today.
Maybe they were terrorists!
The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.
I've gone into hundreds of fortune-teller's parlors, and have been told thousands of things, but nobody ever told me I was a policewoman getting ready to arrest her.
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn't block traffic.
The freedom of all is essential to my freedom.
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.
There's so much pollution in the air now that if it weren't for our lungs there'd be no place to put it all.
Is love supposed to last throughout all time, or is it like trains changing at random stops. If I loved her, how could I leave her? If I felt that way then, how come I don't feel anything now?
Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus, but use all gently. For in the very torrent, tempest, and as I may say, whirlwind of passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance that may give it smoothness.
It's so much easier to write a resume than to craft a spirit.
The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt.
The lion and the calf shall lie down together but the calf won't get much sleep.
It is not enough to aim; you must hit.
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.
Electricity is actually made up of extremely tiny particles called electrons, that you cannot see with the naked eye unless you have been drinking.
What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty.
Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose.
The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it.
The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.
Statistics: The only science that enables different experts using the same figures to draw different conclusions.
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.
After the last of 16 mounting screws has been removed from an access cover, it will be discovered that the wrong access cover has been removed.
Truly great madness cannot be achieved without significant intelligence.
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 cannot run away from a weakness; you must sometimes fight it out or perish. And if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?
The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.
We learn and grow and are transformed not so much by what we do but by why and how we do it.
The undertaking of a new action brings new strength.
We rarely think people have good sense unless they agree with us.
The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present.
Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
My philosophy is that not only are you responsible for your life, but doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.
Sack over my head and cinched it tight around my windpipe.
Anger at lies lasts forever. Anger at truth can't last.
I like to play blackjack. I'm not addicted to gambling, I'm addicted to sitting in a semi-circle.
Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.
I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.
Never let the demands of tomorrow interfere with the pleasures and excitement of today.
You cannot make a man by standing a sheep on its hind legs. But by standing a flock of sheep in that position you can make a crowd of men.
I hope that when I die, people say about me, 'Boy, that guy sure owed me a lot of money.'
Worrying about them always struck me as about as useful as worrying about getting hit by lightning.
The average person thinks he isn't.
We are always in search of the redeeming formula, the crystallizing thought.
Vigorous writing is concise.
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.
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
Truly great madness cannot be achieved without significant intelligence.
Turn the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles.
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.
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.
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.'
But be, as you have been, my happiness...
Winning is important to me, but what brings me real joy is the experience of being fully engaged in whatever I'm doing.
When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time.
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.
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
He who laughs, lasts!
It is not enough to aim; you must hit.
Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it.
You can only cure retail but you can prevent .
Seize opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind.
The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too.
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.
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'.
Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others.
Looks are part of business. A businessman should never stand out more than his customers. His mannerisms, his clothes, everything about him... Moderation is the key.
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.
My philosophy is that not only are you responsible for your life, but doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.
Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less.
Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
There is no stigma attached to recognizing a bad decision in time to install a better one.
Sometimes the cure for restlessness is rest.
For visions come not to polluted eyes.
Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.
If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; If you would know, and not be known, live in a city.
The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.
The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.
Summer afternoon - Summer afternoon... the two most beautiful words in the English language.
Newspapermen learn to call a murderer 'an alleged murderer' and the King of England 'the alleged King of England' to avoid libel suits.
When everyone is against you, it means that you are absolutely wrong-- or absolutely right.
We are made to persist. That's how we find out who we are.
Better shun the bait, than struggle in the snare.
My mother loved children -- she would have given anything if I had been one.
You cannot run away from a weakness; you must sometimes fight it out or perish. And if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?
Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.
History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind.
Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus, but use all gently. For in the very torrent, tempest, and as I may say, whirlwind of passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance that may give it smoothness.
A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money.
A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.
Normal is not something to aspire to, it's something to get away from.
Take a two-mile walk every morning before breakfast.
Think of yourself as an incandescent power, illuminated and perhaps forever talked to by God and his messengers.
As I neared her, I bent to help her up, and was nearly knocked over her.
Bear in mind that you should conduct yourself in life as at a feast.
Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.
Temptation rarely comes in working hours. It is in their leisure time that men are made or marred.
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!
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.
Beware the pull on your heartstrings -- it's often the pursestrings that are actually being reached for.
Feet, why do I need them if I have wings to fly?
Do not envy a sinner; you don't know what disaster awaits him.
Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
History is more or less bunk.
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.
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.
Make a decision, even if it's wrong.
I nearly fell again, but new hands grabbed me from in front and dragged me down a steel floor and then forced me to my knees and locked my hands to something behind me.
Music is essentially useless, as life is.
Van's sweater was soaked in blood.
It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.
How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!
Fresh clean sheets are one of life's small joys.
If the only prayer you ever say in your whole life is "thank you," that would suffice.
What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?
Anything looked at closely becomes wonderful.
You cannot run away from a weakness; you must sometimes fight it out or perish. And if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?
Seize opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind.
Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.
Facts are the enemy of truth.
We need anything politically important rationed out like Pez: small, sweet, and coming out of a funny, plastic head.
I don't think about risks much. I just do what I want to do. If you gotta go, you gotta go.
None are so busy as the fool and knave.
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.
Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinions at all.
Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
God creates men, but they choose each other.
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 most beautiful adventures are not those we go to seek.
If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco.
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.
All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance.
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.
Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.
A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms.
A smiling face is half the meal.
Health consists of having the same diseases as one's neighbors.
It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.
I heard them shouting through the muffling canvas of the bag, and then I was being impersonally hauled to my feet by my wrists, my arms wrenched up behind my back, my shoulders screaming.
The great thing about a computer notebook is that no matter how much you stuff into it, it doesn't get bigger or heavier.
She got her looks from her father. He's a plastic surgeon.
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.
Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day.
The best way out is always through.
Be careful that victories do not carry the seed of future defeats.
I wanted to flag you down because my friend was bleeding. Someone stabbed him."
No matter what I do, no matter how predictable I try to make my life, it will not be any more predictable than the rest of the world. Which is chaotic.
When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time.
Where we have strong emotions, we're liable to fool ourselves.
A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.
Do not believe that he who seeks to comfort you lives untroubled among the simple and quiet words that sometimes do you good. His life has much difficulty... Were it otherwise he would never have been able to find those words.
It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.
The car slewed to a stop and only then did I notice that it wasn't a cop car, ambulance or fire-engine.
I like weights. You know where you stand with them. Well, sometimes you're lying under them, trying not to let them crush you, but you see, you KNOW they'd crush you if they could. There's honesty.
I don't like composers who think. It gets in the way of their plagiarism.
If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody.
Newspapermen learn to call a murderer 'an alleged murderer' and the King of England 'the alleged King of England' to avoid libel suits.
Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.
Man is only miserable so far as he thinks himself so.
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.
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.
Know, first, who you are; and then adorn yourself accordingly.
I was sick of cars driving right past me.
A tactical retreat is not a bad response to a surprise assault, you know. First you survive. Then you choose your own ground. Then you counterattack.
I 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.
I've been on a diet for two weeks and all I've lost is two weeks.
History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind.
If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry is like the potato - the best part under ground.
Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.
Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less.
Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.
I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
Good taste is the enemy of comedy.
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.
Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinions at all.
I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.
The mellow sweetness of pumpkin pie off a prison spoon is something you will never forget.
I feel very strongly that change is good because it stirs up the system.
The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.
Each body has its art...
Fig Newton: The force required to accelerate a fig 39.37 inches per sec.
A hobby a day keeps the doldrums away.
'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.
Some people make headlines while others make history.
The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
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.
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.
I'd never really believed in terrorists before.
Money doesn't always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are no happier than people with nine million dollars.
A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
The habit of giving only enhances the desire to give.
What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?
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.
I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.
It's never just a game when you're winning.
Think of yourself as an incandescent power, illuminated and perhaps forever talked to by God and his messengers.
One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.
The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving on.
I cried out and my own voice was muffled by the hood.
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.
Now we were descending just as steeply.
Good taste is the enemy of comedy.
Thomas Jefferson once said, 'We should never judge a president by his age, only by his works.' And ever since he told me that, I stopped worrying.
The great thing about a computer notebook is that no matter how much you stuff into it, it doesn't get bigger or heavier.
Be sincere; be brief; be seated.
Each body has its art...
If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; If you would know, and not be known, live in a city.
A moment later, I caught my breath, but I didn't say anything.
Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
I barely had time to register them before those rifles were pointed at me.
Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
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.
Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
I don't like composers who think. It gets in the way of their plagiarism.
It's a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn't want to hear.
The strongest possible piece of advice I would give any young woman is: Don't screw around, and don't smoke.
Sometimes love will pick you up by the short hairs...and jerk the heck out of you.
Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.
When all is said and done, the weather and love are the two elements about which one can never be sure.
Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.
Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
More movement, and the sense of bodies being shackled in alongside of me.
No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.
The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
If our early lessons of acceptance were as successful as our early lessons of anger, how much happier we would all be.
Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth?Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.
Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
They can conquer who believe they can.
When they discover the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to discover they are not it.
Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.
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.
Men of genius do not excel in any profession because they labor in it, but they labor in it because they excel.
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.
Creative work is play. It is free speculation using materials of one's chosen form.
By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd be grown up.
I never vote for anyone; I always vote against.
A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought.
We rarely think people have good sense unless they agree with us.
Why the hell would terrorists kidnap a bunch of high school students?
My head rang like a gong.
My home is not a place, it is people.
An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.
The summer night is like a perfection of thought.
The lion and the calf shall lie down together but the calf won't get much sleep.
In the absences of a decent time machine, fiction remains the most sturdy vehicle for visiting other eras.
As long as you derive inner help and comfort from anything, keep it.
Vegetarianism is harmless enough, though it is apt to fill a man with wind and self-righteousness.
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.
If you want to be respected, you must respect yourself.
This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer.
More movement, and the sense of bodies being shackled in alongside of me.
The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.
The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
I guess we'd be living in a boring, perfect world if everybody wished everybody else well.
When you close your doors, and make darkness within, remember never to say that you are alone, for you are not alone; nay, God is within, and your genius is within. And what need have they of light to see what you are doing?
When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.
As a scientist, I am not sure anymore that life can be reduced to a class struggle, to dialectical materialism, or any set of formulas. Life is spontaneous and it is unpredictable, it is magical. I think that we have struggled so hard with the tangible that we have forgotten the intangible.
What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?
All things are difficult before they are easy.
When I was a kid my parents moved a lot, but I always found them.
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.
The Past is to be respected and acknoledged, but not to be worshiped. It is our future in which we will find our greatness.
No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.
As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.
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.
The mellow sweetness of pumpkin pie off a prison spoon is something you will never forget.
He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.
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.
We play the hands of cards life gives us. And the worst hands can make us the best players.
A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead. A man with ambition and love for his blessings here on earth is ever so alive. Having been alive, it won't be so hard in the end to lie down and rest.
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 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.
An idea is salvation by imagination.
Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy.
All programmers are playwrights and all computers are lousy actors.
I heard them shouting through the muffling canvas of the bag, and then I was being impersonally hauled to my feet by my wrists, my arms wrenched up behind my back, my shoulders screaming.
It is my hope that I can assist you in getting here too.
I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for; perfection is God's business.
Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.
Do not be awe struck by other people and try to copy them. Nobody can be you as efficiently as you can.
Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.
When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time.
It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.
The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth.
A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done.
None are so busy as the fool and knave.
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.
It's a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn't want to hear.
As a scientist, I am not sure anymore that life can be reduced to a class struggle, to dialectical materialism, or any set of formulas. Life is spontaneous and it is unpredictable, it is magical. I think that we have struggled so hard with the tangible that we have forgotten the intangible.
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.
What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!
I went up the stairs cautiously, not able to use my hands.
Act as if it were impossible to fail.
Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.
Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up.
Ask a deeply religious Christian if he?d rather live next to a bearded Muslim that may or may not be plotting a terror attack, or an atheist that may or may not show him how to set up a wireless network in his house. On the scale of prejudice, atheists don?t seem so bad lately.
Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch.
I heard Jolu respond, then felt the thump he was dealt, too.
Use what you have to run toward your best - that's how I now live my life.
I don't like composers who think. It gets in the way of their plagiarism.
The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt.
Keep cool and you command everybody.
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.
Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.
It is not enough to aim; you must hit.
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; If you would know, and not be known, live in a city.
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
When I was a kid my parents moved a lot, but I always found them.
Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
If the only prayer you ever say in your whole life is "thank you," that would suffice.
What if this weren't a hypothetical question?
A few seconds later, I tripped over a steel staircase, bashing my shins.
Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.
Temptation rarely comes in working hours. It is in their leisure time that men are made or marred.
When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time.
The car slewed to a stop and only then did I notice that it wasn't a cop car, ambulance or fire-engine.
What makes the engine go? Desire, desire, desire.
Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy.
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.
A hypocrite is a person who--but who isn't?
Most advances in science come when a person for one reason or another is forced to change fields.
The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself.
It was enough to make a body ashamed of the human race.
You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans.
Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn't block traffic.
Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.
Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less.
Never let the demands of tomorrow interfere with the pleasures and excitement of today.
I don't own a cell phone or a pager. I just hang around everyone I know, all the time. If someone wants to get a hold of me, they just say 'Mitch,' and I say 'what?' and turn my head slightly.
The best way out is always through.
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.
Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.
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.
If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk?
A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnecessary.
The great thing about a computer notebook is that no matter how much you stuff into it, it doesn't get bigger or heavier.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.
A rumor without a leg to stand on will get around some other way.
We don't get offered crises, they arrive.
By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd be grown up.
The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others.
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.
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People fail forward to success.
Only some people get what they want. Those are the people who show up to get it.
The undertaking of a new action brings new strength.
Nobody is ever met at the airport when beginning a new adventure. It's just not done.
There is an alchemy in sorrow. It can be transmuted into wisdom, which, if it does not bring joy, can yet bring happiness.
My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that you live, if you do.
I said to myself, I have things in my head that are not like what anyone has taught me - shapes and ideas so near to me - so natural to my way of being and thinking that it hasn't occurred to me to put them down. I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught.
The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.
Nothing can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.
The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.
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."
There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.
At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.
In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.
Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain.
When you have got an elephant by the hind leg, and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.
Confidence is the sexiest thing a woman can have. It's much sexier than any body part.
Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.
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.
It is wonderful how quickly you get used to things, even the most astonishing.
Go through your phone book, call people and ask them to drive you to the airport. The ones who will drive you are your true friends. The rest aren't bad people; they're just acquaintances.
It?s like your batteries get low, and you need to charge them on someone else?s story.
Nothing is as simple as we hope it will be.
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!'
Better by far you should forget and smile than you should remember and be sad.
I heard Jolu respond, then felt the thump he was dealt, too.
What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!
I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars.
Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.
I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
You cannot make a man by standing a sheep on its hind legs. But by standing a flock of sheep in that position you can make a crowd of men.
If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.
We are always in search of the redeeming formula, the crystallizing thought.
Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.
The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.
My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists.
Write a wise saying and your name will live forever.
The undertaking of a new action brings new strength.
We do not believe if we do not live and work according to our belief.
Keep cool and you command everybody.
Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.
There is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
Look at all the sentences which seem true and question them.
There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.
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!
It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right - especially when one is right.
Do something. If it doesn't work, do something else. No idea is too crazy.
Be more prompt to go to a friend in adversity than in prosperity.
Nothing is as simple as we hope it will be.
Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
The faceless, eyeless armed man above me kept his gun very level.
If God had wanted us to vote, he would have given us candidates.
The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
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.
When we are unhurried and wise, we perceive that only great and worthy things have any permanent and absolute existence, that petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of the reality.
The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.
There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers.
Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus, but use all gently. For in the very torrent, tempest, and as I may say, whirlwind of passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance that may give it smoothness.
The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.
We do not believe if we do not live and work according to our belief.
Early morning cheerfulness can be extremely obnoxious.
The art of dining well is no slight art, the pleasure not a slight pleasure.
I got up the third step and reached for the fourth, but it wasn't there.
The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from Science, along with behaviour control, genetic engineering, transplanted heads, computer poetry and the unrestrained growth of plastic flowers.
Now we were descending just as steeply.
...happiness gives us the energy which is the basis of health.
Be honorable yourself if you wish to associate with honorable people.
I don't like composers who think. It gets in the way of their plagiarism.
The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from Science, along with behaviour control, genetic engineering, transplanted heads, computer poetry and the unrestrained growth of plastic flowers.
Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
If you scatter thorns, don't go barefoot.
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.
TV is chewing gum for the eyes.
America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.
You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play.
It is only possible to live happily ever after on a day-to-day basis.
This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer.
I'd learned my lesson.
An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.
Whatever you fear most has no power - it is your fear that has the power.
Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.
An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought.
You can't deny laughter. When it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.
The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.
Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
The crux... is that the vast majority of the mass of the universe seems to be missing.
A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a man of wit, and a pebble in the hand of a fool.
The habit of giving only enhances the desire to give.
No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.
Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
For visions come not to polluted eyes.
A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms.
Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that you live, if you do.
The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.
The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
I used to think that the brain was the most wonderful organ in my body. Then I realized who was telling me this.
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.
Look at all the sentences which seem true and question them.
Who were these clowns?
Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.
Be more prompt to go to a friend in adversity than in prosperity.
Don't mace him!" I shouted over the din. "You'll get us all too.
There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.
The Past is to be respected and acknoledged, but not to be worshiped. It is our future in which we will find our greatness.
I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.
That you may retain your self-respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right, than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong.
Temptation rarely comes in working hours. It is in their leisure time that men are made or marred.
The car rocked back and forth and tipped uphill.
The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value.
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
Statistics: The only science that enables different experts using the same figures to draw different conclusions.
Anger at lies lasts forever. Anger at truth can't last.
Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to be caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self.
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.
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
I have been through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.
Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.
After all it is those who have a deep and real inner life who are best able to deal with the irritating details of outer life.
They weren't wearing insignia.
That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.
I?m telling you, things are getting out of hand. Or maybe I?m discovering that things were never in my hands.
I say luck is when an opportunity comes along, and you're prepared for it.
You couldn't even prove the White House staff sane beyond a reasonable doubt.
The crowd gives the leader new strength.
Sometimes love will pick you up by the short hairs...and jerk the heck out of you.
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.
Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke.
We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.
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.
Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that's where you renew your springs that never dry up.
I used to think that the brain was the most wonderful organ in my body. Then I realized who was telling me this.
I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.
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.
Hearing voices no one else can hear isn't a good sign, even in the wizarding world.
If men could only know each other, they would neither idolize nor hate.
Truth has beauty, power and necessity.
Is love supposed to last throughout all time, or is it like trains changing at random stops. If I loved her, how could I leave her? If I felt that way then, how come I don't feel anything now?
Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.
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.
If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.
Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day.
Humor is also a way of saying something serious.
Art is science made clear.
The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.
I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
Maybe the most any of us can expect of ourselves isn't perfection but progress.
What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say.
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.
A few seconds later, I tripped over a steel staircase, bashing my shins.
A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done.
To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.
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.
Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out and minutely articulated.
If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; If you would know, and not be known, live in a city.
To try to be better is to be better.
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.
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.
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.
Sack over my head and cinched it tight around my windpipe.
Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
Take a two-mile walk every morning before breakfast.
Truly great madness cannot be achieved without significant intelligence.
Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards.
I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.
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 don't think about risks much. I just do what I want to do. If you gotta go, you gotta go.
Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.
Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.
One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.
Do not envy a sinner; you don't know what disaster awaits him.
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
Don't mace him!" I shouted over the din. "You'll get us all too.
Seize opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind.
I felt the doors open near me, and then saw a confusion of booted feet moving close by.
Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up.
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
It is hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head.
O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.
So little time and so little to do.
Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.
Vegetarianism is harmless enough, though it is apt to fill a man with wind and self-righteousness.
People will buy anything that is one to a customer.
Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.
I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.
Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives.
Maybe they were terrorists!
The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.
If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
Walking is man's best medicine.
Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.
A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top .
If there's one thing I know it's God does love a good joke.
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.
Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinions at all.
If it weren't for baseball, many kids wouldn't know what a millionaire looked like.
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few; and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.
I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
The better part of valor is discretion, in the which better part I have saved my life.
Money doesn't always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are no happier than people with nine million dollars.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards.
In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the next meal would come from.
God creates men, but they choose each other.
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.
If you want to be respected, you must respect yourself.
I think people want their illusions and writers are mostly illusion. When you read their words, you read a flattened, incomplete version of the writer.
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.
Keep your broken arm inside your sleeve.
In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
I was the kid next door's imaginary friend.
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans.
I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.
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.
Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.
The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
Never let the demands of tomorrow interfere with the pleasures and excitement of today.
Obscurity is a good thing. You can fail in obscurity. It removes the fear of failure.
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.
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.
Turn the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles.
Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far.
In an industrial society which confuses work and productivity, the necessity of producing has always been an enemy of the desire to create.
Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less.
Get pleasure out of life...as much as you can. Nobody ever died from pleasure.
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.
There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.
Good soldiers never pass up a chance to eat or sleep. They never know how much they'll be called on to do before the next chance.
The 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.
Innovation has nothing to do with how many R&D dollars you have. When Apple came up with the Mac, IBM was spending at least 100 times more on R&D. It's not about money. It's about the people you have, how you're led, and how much you get it.
There are no wise few. Every aristocracy that has ever existed has behaved, in all essential points, exactly like a small mob.
There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.
No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.
The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' (I found it!) but 'That's funny ...'
Talking with you is sort of the conversational equivalent of an out of body experience.
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.
Bacchus hath drowned more men than Neptune.
Sack over my head and cinched it tight around my windpipe.
Skiing combines outdoor fun with knocking down trees with your face.
All human situations have their inconveniences. We feel those of the present but neither see nor feel those of the future; and hence we often make troublesome changes without amendment, and frequently for the worse.
At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.
The strongest possible piece of advice I would give any young woman is: Don't screw around, and don't smoke.
Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.
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.
A doctor saves lives -- It's up to people to create lives that are worth saving.
Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.
I don't generally feel anything until noon; then it's time for my nap.
Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.
The 'Net is a waste of time, and that's exactly what's right about it.
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
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.
So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.
To repeat what others have said, requires education; to challenge it, requires brains.
It felt like they used a baton or something -- it was harder than anyone had ever hit me in the head before.
We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it.
The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.
Is love supposed to last throughout all time, or is it like trains changing at random stops. If I loved her, how could I leave her? If I felt that way then, how come I don't feel anything now?
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.
Hearing voices no one else can hear isn't a good sign, even in the wizarding world.
If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.
I believe that every now and then it is important to laugh at ourselves and take a lighter approach to our life conditions.
Make a decision, even if it's wrong.
Winning is important to me, but what brings me real joy is the experience of being fully engaged in whatever I'm doing.
We can be sure that the greatest hope for maintaining equilibrium in the face of any situation rests within ourselves.
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.
Know, first, who you are; and then adorn yourself accordingly.
You could get on a boat there, get away. That fit with the terrorism hypothesis.
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.
He had learned over the years that poor people did not feel so poor when allowed to give occasionally.
Greatness is more than potential. It is the execution of that potential. Beyond the raw talent. You need the appropriate training. You need the discipline. You need the inspiration. You need the drive.
The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.
Art is science made clear.
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
I heard Jolu respond, then felt the thump he was dealt, too.
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.
Sometimes love will pick you up by the short hairs...and jerk the heck out of you.
There were millions of ways that the world could kill me.
If you really do put a small value upon yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price.
The great thing about a computer notebook is that no matter how much you stuff into it, it doesn't get bigger or heavier.
Don't mace him!" I shouted over the din. "You'll get us all too.
How to Raise your I.Q. by Eating Gifted Children
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.
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.
Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.
...happiness gives us the energy which is the basis of health.
Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn whatever state I am in, therin to be content
Doubt 'til thou canst doubt no more...doubt is thought and thought is life. Systems which end doubt are devices for drugging thought.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
Our lives teach us who we are.
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.
Walking is man's best medicine.
If God had wanted us to vote, he would have given us candidates.
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?
At the mention of the word mace, the guy looked scared and kind of melted back, though the crowd kept him moving forward.
I guess we'd be living in a boring, perfect world if everybody wished everybody else well.
The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
If men could only know each other, they would neither idolize nor hate.
Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day.
Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.
When they discover the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to discover they are not it.
Refuse to be ill. Never tell people you are ill; never own it to yourself. Illness is one of those things which a man should resist on principle.
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn't block traffic.
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
It?s like your batteries get low, and you need to charge them on someone else?s story.
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
None are so busy as the fool and knave.
Refuse to be ill. Never tell people you are ill; never own it to yourself. Illness is one of those things which a man should resist on principle.
The hands behind me gave me another shove.
I know that you believe that you understood what you think I said, but I am not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.
I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars.
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 only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
I heard Jolu respond, then felt the thump he was dealt, too.
If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play at it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf.
You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.
You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans.
I believe that every now and then it is important to laugh at ourselves and take a lighter approach to our life conditions.
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.
O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.
Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out and minutely articulated.
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.
Make a decision, even if it's wrong.
The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.
Someone went upside my head again.
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.
What's the earth With all its art, verse, music, worth - Compared with love, found, gained, and kept?
Inspiration does exist, but it must find you working.
By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd be grown up.
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.
There are no wise few. Every aristocracy that has ever existed has behaved, in all essential points, exactly like a small mob.
Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.
History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.
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.
At my lemonade stand I used to give the first glass away free and charge five dollars for the second glass. The refill contained the antidote.
The next time a car appeared down Market Street, I stepped right out into the road, waving my arms over my head, shouting.
Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.
The only time to buy these is on a day with no 'y' in it.
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
It was enough to make a body ashamed of the human race.
There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.
If you refuse to be made straight when you are green, you will not be made straight when you are dry.
It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.
Only some people get what they want. Those are the people who show up to get it.
He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.
I am not young enough to know everything.
Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.
All programmers are playwrights and all computers are lousy actors.
I've never quite believed that one chance is all I get.
You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.
Act as if it were impossible to fail.
Terrorists killed a lot fewer people than bathroom falls and accidental electrocutions.
To repeat what others have said, requires education; to challenge it, requires brains.
It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.
Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn whatever state I am in, therin to be content
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.
I'd never looked down the barrel of a gun before, but everything you've heard about the experience is true.
A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.
Nobody is ever met at the airport when beginning a new adventure. It's just not done.
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.
But be, as you have been, my happiness...
Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.
Skiing combines outdoor fun with knocking down trees with your face.
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.
Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers.
If my mental map was right, we were heading down to Fisherman's Wharf.
Sometimes love will pick you up by the short hairs...and jerk the heck out of you.
Deeds, not words shall speak me.
I wanted to flag you down because my friend was bleeding. Someone stabbed him."
I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.
Laughter is supposed to be the best medicine, however, it should never be at the expense of someone?s feelings or ignoring truth.
Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
Why do writers write? Because it isn't there.
Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.
I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.
I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
It's wonderful what we can do if we're always doing.
The art of dining well is no slight art, the pleasure not a slight pleasure.
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.
Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose.
He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.
Realize that true happiness lies within you. Waste no time and effort searching for peace and contentment and joy in the world outside. Remember that there is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving. Reach out. Share. Smile. Hug. Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself.
The most erroneous stories are those we think we know best - and therefore never scrutinize or question.
Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.
Be careful that victories do not carry the seed of future defeats.
Each body has its art...
I stand in awe of my body.
Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.
Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.
I heard Jolu respond, then felt the thump he was dealt, too.
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.
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
Most of the basic truths of life sound absurd at first hearing.
There were millions of ways that the world could kill me.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
I cried out and my own voice was muffled by the hood.
I don't like composers who think. It gets in the way of their plagiarism.
Things won are done; joy's soul lies in the doing.
There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack.
I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for; perfection is God's business.
Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.
The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it.
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.
At my lemonade stand I used to give the first glass away free and charge five dollars for the second glass. The refill contained the antidote.
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 may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money.
A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
Temptation rarely comes in working hours. It is in their leisure time that men are made or marred.
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.
Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality... the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.
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.
They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.
Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less.
To try to be better is to be better.
Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.
We do not believe if we do not live and work according to our belief.
When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.
There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.
I am more and more convinced that our happiness or unhappiness depends more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.
We cannot deny the facts of nature, but we should certainly try to improve on them.
We've got to get my friend to a hospital --"
The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.
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.
Time is that quality of nature which keeps events from happening all at once. Lately it doesn't seem to be working.
If you're trying to take a roomful of people by surprise, it's a lot easier to hit your targets if you don't yell going through the door.
It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.
That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.
Do something. If it doesn't work, do something else. No idea is too crazy.
I've never quite believed that one chance is all I get.
If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.
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.
It was enough to make a body ashamed of the human race.
I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.
Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law?
Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.
I hope that when I die, people say about me, 'Boy, that guy sure owed me a lot of money.'
Equal opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent.
Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.
We think in generalities, but we live in detail.
The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
Why the hell would terrorists kidnap a bunch of high school students?
The great thing about a computer notebook is that no matter how much you stuff into it, it doesn't get bigger or heavier.
History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind.
If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read "President Can't Swim".
Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
Bear in mind that you should conduct yourself in life as at a feast.
At the mention of the word mace, the guy looked scared and kind of melted back, though the crowd kept him moving forward.
While we have the gift of life, it seems to me that only tragedy is to allow part of us to die - whether it is our spirit, our creativity, or our glorious uniqueness.
I strained around against the crowd and saw Van looking with disgust at an older guy in a nice suit who was kind of smirking at her. She was digging in her purse and I knew what she was digging for.
There is no nonsense so errant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action.
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.
Someone went upside my head again.
Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.
The crux... is that the vast majority of the mass of the universe seems to be missing.
What's the earth With all its art, verse, music, worth - Compared with love, found, gained, and kept?
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.
Men of genius do not excel in any profession because they labor in it, but they labor in it because they excel.
Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.
Sitting in the back of that Hummer, my head in a hood, my hands lashed behind my back, lurching back and forth while the bruises swelled up on my head, terrorism suddenly felt a lot riskier.
Never let the demands of tomorrow interfere with the pleasures and excitement of today.
The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.
Americans are benevolently ignorant about Canada, while Canadians are malevolently well informed about the United States.
Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
Do not believe that he who seeks to comfort you lives untroubled among the simple and quiet words that sometimes do you good. His life has much difficulty... Were it otherwise he would never have been able to find those words.
There is no stigma attached to recognizing a bad decision in time to install a better one.
God creates men, but they choose each other.
Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to be caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self.
Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.
Our lives teach us who we are.
A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnecessary.
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.
What makes the engine go? Desire, desire, desire.
They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.
A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.
The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.
Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, not swallowed.
The crux... is that the vast majority of the mass of the universe seems to be missing.
The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it.
It's very hard to take yourself too seriously when you look at the world from outer space.
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.
Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.
He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.
Make a decision, even if it's wrong.
I opened my mouth, then shut it, then, very slowly, I held my hands up in front of me.
More movement, and the sense of bodies being shackled in alongside of me.
For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
If our early lessons of acceptance were as successful as our early lessons of anger, how much happier we would all be.
We are able to laugh when we achieve detachment, if only for a moment.
All great truths begin as blasphemies.
I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.
Maybe the most any of us can expect of ourselves isn't perfection but progress.
You should not live one way in private, another in public.
The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility.
I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.
I have always felt that a politician is to be judged by the animosities he excites among his opponents.
It's a dangerous business going out your front door.
Nothing can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.
There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers.
The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.
I am here for a purpose and that purpose is to grow into a mountain, not to shrink to a grain of sand. Henceforth will I apply ALL my efforts to become the highest mountain of all and I will strain my potential until it cries for mercy.
My eyes swam and watered and I literally couldn't breathe through the pain.
Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.
The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
You don't stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop laughing.
The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.
If you don't know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else.