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četvrtak, 24.06.2010.

Before you do anything, think. If you do something to try and impress someone, to be loved, accepted or even to get someone's attention, stop and think. So many people are busy trying to create an image, they die in the process.

Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards.
Never make a defense or an apology until you are accused.
Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
I love my past. I love my present. I'm not ashamed of what I've had, and I'm not sad because I have it no longer.
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.
A poem is no place for an idea.

The only difference between a rut and a grave... is in their dimensions.

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.
People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.
I like to play blackjack. I'm not addicted to gambling, I'm addicted to sitting in a semi-circle.
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.
All things are difficult before they are easy.
Be careful that victories do not carry the seed of future defeats.
You should not live one way in private, another in public.

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

I phoned my dad to tell him I had stopped smoking. He called me a quitter.
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.
They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.
He attacked everything in life with a mix of extrordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which was which.
Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.
Shake off all the fears of servile prejudices, under which weak minds are servilely crouched. Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call on her tribunal for every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear.
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.

Before you do anything, think. If you do something to try and impress someone, to be loved, accepted or even to get someone's attention, stop and think. So many people are busy trying to create an image, they die in the process.

Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it.
A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education.
The scornful nostril and the high head gather not the odors that lie on the track of truth.
The great art of giving consists in this: the gift should cost very little and yet be greatly coveted, so that it may be the more highly appreciated.
I ended up stepping on her stomach as the crowd pushed me past her, but by then I don't think she was feeling anything.
I was sick of cars driving right past me.

Each passenger is given a boarding pass to be shown at geparture gate and again to the stewardess when boarding the plane.

We are always in search of the redeeming formula, the crystallizing thought.
Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.
The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues.
Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.
The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco.
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.
Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn't block traffic.

In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from.

Above all things, never be afraid. The enemy who forces you to retreat is himself afraid of you at that very moment.
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.
I've never quite believed that one chance is all I get.
Someone dragged me by my arms out onto the road, then shoved me, stumbling, down a paved road.
A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory.
It's all right to have butterflies in your stomach. Just get them to fly in formation.
So little time and so little to do.

You can learn as much - or more - from one glance at a private space as you can from hours of exposure to a public face.

The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
He attacked everything in life with a mix of extrordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which was which.
I have a simple philosophy. Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. And scratch where it itches.
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.
They weren't wearing insignia.
If you don't know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else.
Beware the pull on your heartstrings -- it's often the pursestrings that are actually being reached for.

One can see a table near the window and two bookshelves on the wall with books, the majority of them are fiction, as my group mate really likes to read, she is an educated person.

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.
My mother loved children -- she would have given anything if I had been one.
The best of us must sometimes eat our words.
Paradise is exactly like where you are right now... only much, much better.
The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said.
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
You don't stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop laughing.

'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.

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?
If you don't know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else.
You never know how a horse will pull until you hook him up to a heavy load.
An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.
Whenever evil befalls us, we ought to ask ourselves, after the first suffering, how we can turn it into good. So shall we take occasion, from one bitter root, to raise perhaps many flowers.
I don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is a language I don't understand.
Truly great madness cannot be achieved without significant intelligence.

srijeda, 23.06.2010.

The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it.

Maybe the most any of us can expect of ourselves isn't perfection but progress.
Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.
Fig Newton: The force required to accelerate a fig 39.37 inches per sec.
The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility.
You don't get anything clean without getting something else dirty.
In the right light, at the right time, everything is extraordinary.
Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.

Be sincere; be brief; be seated.

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.
Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to be caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self.
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.
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 only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is inefficiency. An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty.
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.

For visions come not to polluted eyes.

The art of dining well is no slight art, the pleasure not a slight pleasure.
Depend not on fortune, but on conduct.
Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.
Rest is the sweet sauce of labor.
Never make a defense or an apology until you are accused.
I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.
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.

Anything looked at closely becomes wonderful.

There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.
Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.
To try to be better is to be better.
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.
An idea is salvation by imagination.
The freedom of all is essential to my freedom.

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, char

Money frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy.
The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.
Whatever you fear most has no power - it is your fear that has the power.
Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.
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?
They weren't wearing insignia.
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.

Films are placed in one of three categories in Britain. "U" - suitable for everybody, "A" - more suitable for adults, "X" - suitable only for adults.

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 roses, the lovely notes, the dining and dancing are all welcome and splendid. But when the Godiva is gone, the gift of real love is having someone who'll go the distance with you. Someone who, when the wedding day limo breaks down, is willing to share a seat on the bus.
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.
By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.
No one goes there nowadays, it's too crowded.
Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.

What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!

All programmers are playwrights and all computers are lousy actors.
What's another word for Thesaurus?
Fig Newton: The force required to accelerate a fig 39.37 inches per sec.
I'm going to stay in show business until I'm the last one left.
Above all things, never be afraid. The enemy who forces you to retreat is himself afraid of you at that very moment.
When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.
History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind.

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

The art of dining well is no slight art, the pleasure not a slight pleasure.
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.
You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.
I didn't even breathe.
The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.
My mother loved children -- she would have given anything if I had been one.
The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.

Be a good listener. Your ears will never get you in trouble.

I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
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.
Like anyone else, there are days I feel beautiful and days I don't, and when I don't, I do something about it.
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.
What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?
The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
We don't get offered crises, they arrive.

Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.

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.
Have you ever observed that we pay much more attention to a wise passage when it is quoted than when we read it in the original author?
History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.
Photographers do this for a living, every single day -- they point their lenses toward every single corner of our world and somehow make the mundane mesmerizing through their artistic eye. It's all a matter of being aware of your surroundings and realizing that there are some really amazing and interesting things to look at, even if it may just be something so simple as a wall being covered up by paint.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
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.

Never part without loving words to think of during your absence. It may be that you will not meet again in life.

The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.
If there's one thing I know it's God does love a good joke.
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.
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'.
Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality.
Music is essentially useless, as life is.

Everybody enjoys the cloudless sky and bright sun.

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.
Seize opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind.
Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.
Time is that quality of nature which keeps events from happening all at once. Lately it doesn't seem to be working.
An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.
The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too.
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.

Despite promises about sharing the world's wealth, the gap between the rich and poor has been getting larger since 1960.

Have patience awhile; slanders are not long-lived. Truth is the child of time; erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee.
Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
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.
There are no wise few. Every aristocracy that has ever existed has behaved, in all essential points, exactly like a small mob.
I'm glad I didn't have to fight in any war. I'm glad I didn't have to pick up a gun. I'm glad I didn't get killed or kill somebody. I hope my kids enjoy the same lack of manhood.
I've never quite believed that one chance is all I get.
If you think taking care of yourself is selfish, change your mind. If you don't, you're simply ducking your responsibilities.

When two people meet in the street they will often say something about weather as they pass, just to show their friendliness.

My friends are my estate.
I shouted, and earned a hard thump on my head for my trouble.
The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.
A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnecessary.
There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.
Exercise ferments the humors, casts them into their proper channels, throws off redundancies, and helps nature in those secret distributions, without which the body cannot subsist in its vigor, nor the soul act with cheerfulness.
There?s so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets?

The center of the city is on Capital Hill. This building houses both the senate and a House of Representatives.

Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.
Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.
The 'Net is a waste of time, and that's exactly what's right about it.
She screamed as she went down, and I saw her thrashing to get up, but she couldn't, the crowd's pressure was too strong.
Things are only impossible until they're not.
You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans.
At the mention of the word mace, the guy looked scared and kind of melted back, though the crowd kept him moving forward.

To repeat what others have said, requires education; to challenge it, requires brains.

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 reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
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.
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say.
I opened my mouth, then shut it, then, very slowly, I held my hands up in front of me.
The crowd gives the leader new strength.

How to Raise your I.Q. by Eating Gifted Children

Intimacy is being seen and known as the person you truly are.
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.
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.
Hares can gambol over the body of a dead lion.
Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.
Depend not on fortune, but on conduct.
I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate.

Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity.

There is an alchemy in sorrow. It can be transmuted into wisdom, which, if it does not bring joy, can yet bring happiness.
Turn the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles.
We learn and grow and are transformed not so much by what we do but by why and how we do it.
When you want to believe in something, you also have to believe in everything that's necessary for believing in it.
Let me tell you, quite frankly, it took a while and a lot of therapy to get here.
Laughter is supposed to be the best medicine, however, it should never be at the expense of someone?s feelings or ignoring truth.
Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable.

nedjelja, 20.06.2010.

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

Get pleasure out of life...as much as you can. Nobody ever died from pleasure.
You can go a long way with bad legs and a good head.
Even the fear of death is nothing compared to the fear of not having lived authentically and fully.
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
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'd never looked down the barrel of a gun before, but everything you've heard about the experience is true.

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

Everybody likes to go their own way--to choose their own time and manner of devotion.
Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.
Part of being creative is learning how to protect your freedom. That includes freedom from avarice.
Each individual woman's body demands to be accepted on its own terms.
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.
I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.

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

Sometimes love will pick you up by the short hairs...and jerk the heck out of you.
The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.
It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't.
If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
I was not a child prodigy, because a child prodigy is a child who knows as much when it is a child as it does when it grows up.
When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.
Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.

We've got to get my friend to a hospital --"

Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
I hope that when I die, people say about me, 'Boy, that guy sure owed me a lot of money.'
Late to bed and late to wake will keep you long on money and short on mistakes.
Keep true to the dreams of thy youth.
I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education.
I was gratified to be able to answer promptly. I said I don't know.
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.
Go often to the house of thy friend; for weeds soon choke up the unused path.
If you really do put a small value upon yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price.
We are always in search of the redeeming formula, the crystallizing thought.
After the last of 16 mounting screws has been removed from an access cover, it will be discovered that the wrong access cover has been removed.
You 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.
We are able to laugh when we achieve detachment, if only for a moment.

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.

Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always plainly; for the end of speech is not ostentation, but to be understood.
All great truths begin as blasphemies.
There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers.
I'd learned my lesson.
Look at all the sentences which seem true and question them.
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.
The trick is to make sure you don't die waiting for prosperity to come.

Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.

Most advances in science come when a person for one reason or another is forced to change fields.
You never find yourself until you face the truth.
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.
O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.
We can be sure that the greatest hope for maintaining equilibrium in the face of any situation rests within ourselves.
I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for; perfection is God's business.
Paradise is exactly like where you are right now... only much, much better.

Treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.

Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.
I?m telling you, things are getting out of hand. Or maybe I?m discovering that things were never in my hands.
I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
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.
Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.
Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity.
So little time and so little to do.

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

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.
It's the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion.
God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
The great art of giving consists in this: the gift should cost very little and yet be greatly coveted, so that it may be the more highly appreciated.
If you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome; if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent; if you believe the military, nothing is safe.
I don't believe in intuition. When you get sudden flashes of perception, it is just the brain working faster than usual. But you've been getting ready to know it for a long time, and when it comes, you feel you've known it always.
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.

utorak, 15.06.2010.

The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.

God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory.
Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
Now we were descending just as steeply.
The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.
Talking with you is sort of the conversational equivalent of an out of body experience.
Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy.

Here there are a lot of things that make this room look nice; she has a lot of toys which sit on her bed, on the shelves and on the windowsill. She collects statues of cats that she brings from different countries, it characterizes her as a broad-minded p

If the only prayer you ever say in your whole life is "thank you," that would suffice.
We play the hands of cards life gives us. And the worst hands can make us the best players.
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.
Is there life before death?
The charity that hastens to proclaim its good deeds, ceases to be charity, and is only pride and ostentation.
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.
The art of dining well is no slight art, the pleasure not a slight pleasure.

What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!

She screamed as she went down, and I saw her thrashing to get up, but she couldn't, the crowd's pressure was too strong.
Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves.
We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.
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.
Intimacy is being seen and known as the person you truly are.
What if this weren't a hypothetical question?
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.

How we remember, what we remember and why we remember form the most personal map of our individuality.

This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer.
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.
When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.
Some people make headlines while others make history.
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
The first vehicle that screamed past -- an ambulance -- didn't even slow down.
We play the hands of cards life gives us. And the worst hands can make us the best players.

My friends are my estate.

I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
I believe that every now and then it is important to laugh at ourselves and take a lighter approach to our life conditions.
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.
A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
Never part without loving words to think of during your absence. It may be that you will not meet again in life.
Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.
Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.

It felt like they used a baton or something -- it was harder than anyone had ever hit me in the head before.

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 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.
He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.
Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.
A few seconds later, I tripped over a steel staircase, bashing my shins.
Take a two-mile walk every morning before breakfast.
Doubt 'til thou canst doubt no more...doubt is thought and thought is life. Systems which end doubt are devices for drugging thought.

The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.

Hares can gambol over the body of a dead lion.
Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.
Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always plainly; for the end of speech is not ostentation, but to be understood.
A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth?Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.
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.
Doubt 'til thou canst doubt no more...doubt is thought and thought is life. Systems which end doubt are devices for drugging thought.

If a dog jumps in your lap, it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does the same thing, it is because your lap is warmer.

We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
The freedom of all is essential to my freedom.
We all have strength enough to endure the misfortunes of others.
In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
It is only possible to live happily ever after on a day-to-day basis.
Shake off all the fears of servile prejudices, under which weak minds are servilely crouched. Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call on her tribunal for every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear.

Eating too much junk food can cause overweight and as heart-disease.

Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable.
You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.
When someone does something good, applaud! You will make two people happy.
Terrorists killed a lot fewer people than bathroom falls and accidental electrocutions.
I ended up stepping on her stomach as the crowd pushed me past her, but by then I don't think she was feeling anything.

petak, 11.06.2010.

Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.

Someone dragged me by my arms out onto the road, then shoved me, stumbling, down a paved road.
As I get older, I've learned to listen to people rather than accuse them of things.
Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always plainly; for the end of speech is not ostentation, but to be understood.
The great art of giving consists in this: the gift should cost very little and yet be greatly coveted, so that it may be the more highly appreciated.
I was the kid next door's imaginary friend.
What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!
The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco.