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subota, 31.07.2010.

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

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.
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 trick is to make sure you don't die waiting for prosperity to come.
Good taste is the enemy of comedy.
Keep cool and you command everybody.
It felt like they used a baton or something -- it was harder than anyone had ever hit me in the head before.
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.

Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.

Sack over my head and cinched it tight around my windpipe.
Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.
We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.
Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.
A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of.
Intimacy is what makes a marriage, not a ceremony, not a piece of paper from the state.
The undertaking of a new action brings new strength.

It is the longest and the widest street in New York.

Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.
I never know how much of what I say is true.
Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn whatever state I am in, therin to be content

Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.

Do not be awe struck by other people and try to copy them. Nobody can be you as efficiently as you can.
Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day.
Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke.
Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
To achieve great things we must live as though we were never going to die.
Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
If there's one thing I know it's God does love a good joke.

Be sincere; be brief; be seated.

All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance.
Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.
The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out the conservative adopts them.
A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.
The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said.
A poem is no place for an idea.
Memory feeds imagination.

I used to believe that marriage would diminish me, reduce my options. That you had to be someone less to live with someone else when, of course, you have to be someone more.

I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for; perfection is God's business.
Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
The Americans have need of the telephone, but we do not. We have plenty of messenger boys.
It is hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head.
I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!
It?s like your batteries get low, and you need to charge them on someone else?s story.

The Reagan-Bush Years to the Present

Fig Newton: The force required to accelerate a fig 39.37 inches per sec.
Sometimes you can't see yourself clearly until you see yourself through the eyes of others.
We do not believe if we do not live and work according to our belief.
The engine died and then the doors swung open.
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.
Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain.

No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.

It's all right to have butterflies in your stomach. Just get them to fly in formation.
The better part of valor is discretion, in the which better part I have saved my life.
An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
Late to bed and late to wake will keep you long on money and short on mistakes.
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.

Life is consciousness.

I phoned my dad to tell him I had stopped smoking. He called me a quitter.
Nothing is so good for an ignorant man as silence; and if he was sensible of this he would not be ignorant.
It's important to begin a search on a full stomach.
True friends are those who really know you but love you anyway.
I lived what most people call the good life. I was happy, but deep inside I always felt that, with the short amount of time we are given to live and love in this world, we spend too much time loving things instead of people.
I shouted, and earned a hard thump on my head for my trouble.
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.

Students achieving Oneness will move on to Twoness.

Censorship, like charity, should begin at home; but, unlike charity, it should end there.
Vegetarianism is harmless enough, though it is apt to fill a man with wind and self-righteousness.
Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.
Feet, why do I need them if I have wings to fly?
It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.
Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards.
Hares can gambol over the body of a dead lion.

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?

I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.
Statistics: The only science that enables different experts using the same figures to draw different conclusions.
Normal is not something to aspire to, it's something to get away from.
Vegetarianism is harmless enough, though it is apt to fill a man with wind and self-righteousness.
The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.
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.
Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.

The room is always filled with the sounds of music.

We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all.
Never eat more than you can lift.
So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.
So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.
I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.
The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.

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

The 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.
It's important to begin a search on a full stomach.
I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
Feet, why do I need them if I have wings to fly?
Keep your broken arm inside your sleeve.
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.
We rocked to a stop still on a downslope.

If men could only know each other, they would neither idolize nor hate.

For the most part, fear is nothing but an illusion. When you share it with someone else, it tends to disappear.
Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
The only time to buy these is on a day with no 'y' in it.
The great thing about a computer notebook is that no matter how much you stuff into it, it doesn't get bigger or heavier.
The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.
Rest is the sweet sauce of labor.
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.

While some people are able to recover without help, the majority of alcoholic individuals need outside assistance to recover from their disease.

Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, not swallowed.
The hands behind me gave me another shove.
Most advances in science come when a person for one reason or another is forced to change fields.
Do what you feel in your heart to be right - for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't.
Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity.
He who boasts of his ancestry is praising the deeds of another.

You can learn many things from books.

Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
All movements go too far.
Vegetarianism is harmless enough, though it is apt to fill a man with wind and self-righteousness.
We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone.

In the United States this is known as moonshining.

Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
Things are only impossible until they're not.
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
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.
It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.
Worries go down better with soup than without.
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.

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

Students achieving Oneness will move on to Twoness.
Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.
The charity that hastens to proclaim its good deeds, ceases to be charity, and is only pride and ostentation.
There were millions of ways that the world could kill me.
The scornful nostril and the high head gather not the odors that lie on the track of truth.
Paradise is exactly like where you are right now... only much, much better.
I was as scared as I'd ever been. There was screaming everywhere now, and more bodies on the floor, and the press from behind was as relentless as a bulldozer. It was all I could do to keep on my feet.

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.

The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.
Be sincere; be brief; be seated.
History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.
Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.
Nothing is said that has not been said before.
People fail forward to success.
There are no wise few. Every aristocracy that has ever existed has behaved, in all essential points, exactly like a small mob.

In the 1994 congressional and state elections, however, the Republican party scored major victories and increased its hold in the South.

When you have got an elephant by the hind leg, and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.
He who is not very strong in memory should not meddle with lying.
Now we were descending just as steeply.
Even the fear of death is nothing compared to the fear of not having lived authentically and fully.
To achieve great things we must live as though we were never going to die.
Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.
Truly great madness cannot be achieved without significant intelligence.

In 1968 the party rebounded and won a narrow victory with party stalwart Richard Nixon over Democratic candidate Hubert Humphrey, who was handicapped by disaffection over the Vietnam War.

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.
I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law?
Take a two-mile walk every morning before breakfast.
One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.
I'd never really believed in terrorists before.
If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.

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

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.
Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
A chess genius is a human being who focuses vast, little-understood mental gifts and labors on an ultimately trivial human enterprise.
Sorrow was like the wind. It came in gusts.
Hearing voices no one else can hear isn't a good sign, even in the wizarding world.
The average person thinks he isn't.
Most advances in science come when a person for one reason or another is forced to change fields.

I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.

Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.
In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.
We can be sure that the greatest hope for maintaining equilibrium in the face of any situation rests within ourselves.
The crowd gives the leader new strength.
I have been through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.
Feet, why do I need them if I have wings to fly?
The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.

Together, these investigations will help to prevent alcohol problems; identify alcohol abuse and alcoholism at earlier stages; and make available new, more effective treatment approaches for individuals and families.

If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
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.
A moment later, I caught my breath, but I didn't say anything.
The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success. Talent is only a starting point in this business. You've got to keep on working that talent. Someday I'll reach for it and it won't be there.
The only difference between a rut and a grave... is in their dimensions.
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 gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.

petak, 30.07.2010.

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

The Past is to be respected and acknoledged, but not to be worshiped. It is our future in which we will find our greatness.
A neurosis is a secret that you don't know you are keeping.
The trick is to make sure you don't die waiting for prosperity to come.
Whatever you fear most has no power - it is your fear that has the power.
Anything looked at closely becomes wonderful.
Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.
Winning is important to me, but what brings me real joy is the experience of being fully engaged in whatever I'm doing.

Although it contains 13 volumes, much of the work may not be Euclid's.

The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it.
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.
Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.
One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.
We learn something every day, and lots of times it's that what we learned the day before was wrong.
Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn't block traffic.
History is more or less bunk.

I never vote for anyone; I always vote against.

History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind.
The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.
The great thing about a computer notebook is that no matter how much you stuff into it, it doesn't get bigger or heavier.
Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality.
Whatever you do, do it to the purpose; do it thoroughly, not superficially. Go to the bottom of things. Any thing half done, or half known, is in my mind, neither done nor known at all. Nay, worse, for it often misleads.
A doctor saves lives -- It's up to people to create lives that are worth saving.
Terrorists killed a lot fewer people than bathroom falls and accidental electrocutions.

Air population is a very serious problem.

It was a military-looking Jeep, like an armored Hummer, only it didn't have any military insignia on it.
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few; and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.
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.
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.
He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.
I feel very strongly that change is good because it stirs up the system.
Feet, why do I need them if I have wings to fly?

As for me, I have made up my mind to be an engineer.

The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.
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.
As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.
They can conquer who believe they can.
There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.
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.
A few seconds later, I tripped over a steel staircase, bashing my shins.

Today Australia is an independent federative state consisting of 6 states and 2 territories.

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.
The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco.
He had learned over the years that poor people did not feel so poor when allowed to give occasionally.
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.
One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.
I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars.
By learning to discover and value our ordinariness, we nurture a friendliness toward ourselves and the world that is the essence of a healthy soul.

Think of life as a terminal illness, because, if you do, you will live it with joy and passion, as it ought to be lived.

When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers.
I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.
Is there life before death?
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
We inhereit from our ancestors gifts so often taken for granted... Each of us contains within... this inheritance of soul. We are links between the ages, containing past and present expectations, sacred memories and future promise.
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
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.

Who were these clowns?

There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.
My eyes swam and watered and I literally couldn't breathe through the pain.
Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.
Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.
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.
Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.
Better by far you should forget and smile than you should remember and be sad.

It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right - especially when one is right.

I'd never really believed in terrorists before.
You're dealing with the demon of external validation. You can't beat external validation. You want to know why? Because it feels sooo good.
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 have got an elephant by the hind leg, and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.
If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk?
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.
We are always in search of the redeeming formula, the crystallizing thought.

The older I grow, the less important the comma becomes. Let the reader catch his own breath.

He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.
The world tolerates conceit from those who are successful, but not from anybody else.
There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth.
Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.
To achieve great things we must live as though we were never going to die.
I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
No.

His work in geometry provided the foundation on which all future mathematicians were educated.

Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
Each individual woman's body demands to be accepted on its own terms.
Many people weigh the guilt they will feel against the pleasure of the forbidden action they want to take.
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.
I'm moving, but don't worry! Someone once told me we're all on the same planet, so I'll be okay!
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.

The pain of making the necessary sacrifices always hurts more than you think it's going to. I know. It sucks. That being said, doing something seriously creative is one of the most amazing experiences one can have, in this or any other lifetime. If you ca

Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.
Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule - and both commonly succeed, and are right.
Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.
Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.
Money frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy.
A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money.
I used to think that the brain was the most wonderful organ in my body. Then I realized who was telling me this.

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

We can be sure that the greatest hope for maintaining equilibrium in the face of any situation rests within ourselves.
Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
Up ahead, I saw someone, a middle-aged lady in a hippie dress, falter and fall.
The best way out is always through.
When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers.
The only difference between a rut and a grave... is in their dimensions.
Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.

But days become shorter and nights longer and darker.

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.
A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a man of wit, and a pebble in the hand of a fool.
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
All programmers are playwrights and all computers are lousy actors.
Nobody is ever met at the airport when beginning a new adventure. It's just not done.
Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
Inspiration does exist, but it must find you working.

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.

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.
What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?
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.
My head rang like a gong.
Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn't block traffic.
Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.

My head rang like a gong.

We are what we repeatedly do.
The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt.
I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.
When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.
What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?
Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.
I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty... But I am too busy thinking about myself.

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!'

The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
The car skidded to a stop just in front of me, and I jumped back and lost my balance and ended up on the road.
Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
Let me tell you, quite frankly, it took a while and a lot of therapy to get here.
Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves.
Rest is the sweet sauce of labor.
When you go into court you are putting your fate into the hands of twelve people who weren't smart enough to get out of jury duty.

It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.

Nothing is so awesomely unfamiliar as the familiar that discloses itself at the end of a journey.
Self-importance is our greatest enemy. Think about it - what weakens us is feeling offended by the deeds and misdeeds of our fellowmen. Our self-importance requires that we spend most of our lives offended by someone.
A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
The next time a car appeared down Market Street, I stepped right out into the road, waving my arms over my head, shouting.
A hypocrite is a person who--but who isn't?
Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
It is impossible to walk rapidly and be unhappy.

četvrtak, 29.07.2010.

When I was a child my parents read them to me.

It's the opinion of some that crops could be grown on the moon. Which raises the fear that it may not be long before we're paying somebody not to.
I despise the pleasure of pleasing people that I despise.
If the only prayer you ever say in your whole life is "thank you," that would suffice.
He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.
Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
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.
Each individual woman's body demands to be accepted on its own terms.

There are 2 big concert halls in London.

The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.
I feel about airplanes the way I feel about diets. It seems to me they are wonderful things for other people to go on.
None are so busy as the fool and knave.
Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.
I've never quite believed that one chance is all I get.
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.
Walking is man's best medicine.

I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.

We don't get offered crises, they arrive.
I never vote for anyone; I always vote against.
All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.
It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.
The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success. Talent is only a starting point in this business. You've got to keep on working that talent. Someday I'll reach for it and it won't be there.
You could get on a boat there, get away. That fit with the terrorism hypothesis.
Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.

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.

All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance.
Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.
We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language.
Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.
Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself...True happiness is born of self-reliance.
Sooner or later, we've got to work at it, no matter how many other careers we've had or wanted.
The two symbols of the Republican Party: an elephant, and a big fat white guy who is threatened by change.

Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.

A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money.
Censorship, like charity, should begin at home; but, unlike charity, it should end there.
I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.
How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!
He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.
I opened my mouth, then shut it, then, very slowly, I held my hands up in front of me.
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.

We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.

Walking is man's best medicine.
Listen. Do not have an opinion while you listen because frankly, your opinion doesn?t hold much water outside of Your Universe. Just listen. Listen until their brain has been twisted like a dripping towel and what they have to say is all over the floor.
I say luck is when an opportunity comes along, and you're prepared for it.
A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money.
By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd be grown up.
Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anyone else.
When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.

There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?

Hope is tomorrow's veneer over today's disappointment.
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."
If my mental map was right, we were heading down to Fisherman's Wharf.
Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.
Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.
If God had wanted us to vote, he would have given us candidates.
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.

No great improvements in the lot of mankind are possible until a great change takes place in the fundamental constitution of their modes of thought.

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.
Treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.
All programmers are playwrights and all computers are lousy actors.
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.
A minute's success pays the failure of years.
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.

One thing I've learned in all these years is not to make love when you really don't feel it; there's probably nothing worse you can do to yourself than that.

I use an optimistic, positive approach to deal with my symptoms and it came the hard way, before I learned to laugh with myself a little.
You have to recognize when the right place and the right time fuse and take advantage of that opportunity. There are plenty of opportunities out there. You can't sit back and wait.
He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.
We learn and grow and are transformed not so much by what we do but by why and how we do it.
The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value.
Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day.
Nothing is as simple as we hope it will be.

There is an evil tendency underlying all our technology - the tendency to do what is reasonable even when it isn't any good.

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.
When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.
He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.
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.
Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.
Electricity is actually made up of extremely tiny particles called electrons, that you cannot see with the naked eye unless you have been drinking.
There is no stigma attached to recognizing a bad decision in time to install a better one.

We inhereit from our ancestors gifts so often taken for granted... Each of us contains within... this inheritance of soul. We are links between the ages, containing past and present expectations, sacred memories and future promise.

Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others.
A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
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.
A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of.
It felt like they used a baton or something -- it was harder than anyone had ever hit me in the head before.
The faceless, eyeless armed man above me kept his gun very level.
A joke's a very serious thing.

New York is the largest city in USA.

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.
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.
For me, it's that I contributed, ... That I'm on this planet doing some good and making people happy. That's to me the most important thing, that my hour of television is positive and upbeat and an antidote for all the negative stuff going on in life.
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
Do not be awe struck by other people and try to copy them. Nobody can be you as efficiently as you can.
It is never too late to give up our prejudices.
My friend is one... who take me for what I am.

I guess we'd be living in a boring, perfect world if everybody wished everybody else well.

The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-seven now, and we don't know where the hell she is.
If our early lessons of acceptance were as successful as our early lessons of anger, how much happier we would all be.
Sometimes love will pick you up by the short hairs...and jerk the heck out of you.
Be sincere; be brief; be seated.
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.
Seize opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind.

The left always having been linked with evil.

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.
He attacked everything in life with a mix of extrordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which was which.
The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success. Talent is only a starting point in this business. You've got to keep on working that talent. Someday I'll reach for it and it won't be there.
I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming... suddenly you find - at the age of 50, say - that a whole new life has opened before you.
Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others.
The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too.
There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.

Do you want to be an organizer of other people's activities?

People fail forward to success.
My mother loved children -- she would have given anything if I had been one.
It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt.
The better part of valor is discretion, in the which better part I have saved my life.
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.

Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.

Even the fear of death is nothing compared to the fear of not having lived authentically and fully.
Hearing voices no one else can hear isn't a good sign, even in the wizarding world.
The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said.
Make a decision, even if it's wrong.
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.
There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers.
Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

srijeda, 28.07.2010.

If there is a long time to wait I can always look at the portraits of film stars hanging on the walls of the foyer, or listen to a little concert that is usually given for the spectators.

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!'
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.
Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
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.
On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily lying down.
I define comfort as self-acceptance. When we finally learn that self-care begins and ends with ourselves, we no longer demand sustenance and happiness from others.
There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.

Homes reflect the way of life and habits of their owners.

Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.
Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn whatever state I am in, therin to be content
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.
No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.
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.
You couldn't even prove the White House staff sane beyond a reasonable doubt.
Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.

Now I like to read books on science.

I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for; perfection is God's business.
The strongest possible piece of advice I would give any young woman is: Don't screw around, and don't smoke.
Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.
Things are only impossible until they're not.
Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.
It is fortunate to be of high birth, but it is no less so to be of such character that people do not care to know whether you are or are not.
A man is too apt to forget that in this world he cannot have everything. A choice is all that is left him.

What's another word for Thesaurus?

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!
I have always felt that a politician is to be judged by the animosities he excites among his opponents.
The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.
The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
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.
When you have got an elephant by the hind leg, and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.
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.

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

All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.
Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
The great thing about a computer notebook is that no matter how much you stuff into it, it doesn't get bigger or heavier.
The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.
Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.
Things won are done; joy's soul lies in the doing.
Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.

But as any type of housing a flat has its disadvantages: your neighbours can make a lot of noise when they, for example, hammer or drill the wall, or when they organize a party.

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.
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.
Fresh clean sheets are one of life's small joys.
Worries go down better with soup than without.
Think of life as a terminal illness, because, if you do, you will live it with joy and passion, as it ought to be lived.
Obscurity is a good thing. You can fail in obscurity. It removes the fear of failure.
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.

A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.

People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.
I phoned my dad to tell him I had stopped smoking. He called me a quitter.
Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
If the only prayer you ever say in your whole life is "thank you," that would suffice.
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.
Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.
Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.

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

You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans.
Vanessa didn't like it, but I figured a cop wasn't going to stop for a kid waving his hat in the street, not that day. They just might stop if they saw Darryl bleeding there, though. I argued briefly with her and Darryl settled it by lurching to his feet and dragging himself down toward Market Street.
I 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.
If you want to be respected, you must respect yourself.
Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.
Never be a cynic, even a gentle one. Never help out a sneer, even at the devil.
The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.

He can be described as a funny little man taken by many readers as a comic.

What children take from us, they give?We become people who feel more deeply, question more deeply, hurt more deeply, and love more deeply.
I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.
It is wonderful how quickly you get used to things, even the most astonishing.
Now we were descending just as steeply.
The trick is to make sure you don't die waiting for prosperity to come.
I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.
What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty.

Have patience awhile; slanders are not long-lived. Truth is the child of time; erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee.

The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.
Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.
We need anything politically important rationed out like Pez: small, sweet, and coming out of a funny, plastic head.
The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.
The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.
Truly great madness cannot be achieved without significant intelligence.
A rumor without a leg to stand on will get around some other way.

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

The crux... is that the vast majority of the mass of the universe seems to be missing.
The car rocked back and forth and tipped uphill.
Experience is a good teacher, but she send in terrific bills.
I wanted to flag you down because my friend was bleeding. Someone stabbed him."
He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.
I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.

The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.

He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.
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.
There is no nonsense so errant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.
Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.
Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.
Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.

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

Newspapermen learn to call a murderer 'an alleged murderer' and the King of England 'the alleged King of England' to avoid libel suits.
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.
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.
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.
Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
I don't like composers who think. It gets in the way of their plagiarism.
Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.

Why the hell would terrorists kidnap a bunch of high school students?

Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.
Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.
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.
The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco.
All programmers are playwrights and all computers are lousy actors.
Let not the sands of time get in your lunch.
Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy.

utorak, 27.07.2010.

Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.

My friends are my estate.
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?
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.
Part of being creative is learning how to protect your freedom. That includes freedom from avarice.
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.
What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say.
If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read "President Can't Swim".

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

I must create a system, or be enslaved by another man's.
The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
All things are difficult before they are easy.
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.
In the right light, at the right time, everything is extraordinary.
Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth?Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.

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

I lived what most people call the good life. I was happy, but deep inside I always felt that, with the short amount of time we are given to live and love in this world, we spend too much time loving things instead of people.
By learning to discover and value our ordinariness, we nurture a friendliness toward ourselves and the world that is the essence of a healthy soul.
Bacchus hath drowned more men than Neptune.
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.
Americans are benevolently ignorant about Canada, while Canadians are malevolently well informed about the United States.
The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.

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

You cannot be mad at somebody who makes you laugh - it's as simple as that.
Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.
Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy those are who already possess 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.
Life is consciousness.
God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
My father hated radio and could not wait for television to be invented so he could hate that too.

Keep cool and you command everybody.

What makes the engine go? Desire, desire, desire.
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.
Late to bed and late to wake will keep you long on money and short on mistakes.
The undertaking of a new action brings new strength.
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.
I was as scared as I'd ever been. There was screaming everywhere now, and more bodies on the floor, and the press from behind was as relentless as a bulldozer. It was all I could do to keep on my feet.
Now is the time for all good men to come to.

I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters.

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.
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.
The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
There isn?t much better in this life than finding a way to spend a few hours in conversation with people you respect and love. You have to carve this time out of your life because you aren?t really living without it.
I was pushed roughly but dispassionately onto my stomach and something went twice around my wrists and then tightened up as well, feeling like baling wire and biting cruelly.
The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.
Reveal not every secret you have to a friend, for how can you tell but that friend may hereafter become an enemy. And bring not all mischief you are able to upon an enemy, for he may one day become your friend.

It is impossible to walk rapidly and be unhappy.

Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.
You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are; but you must approach each man by the right door.
I got up the third step and reached for the fourth, but it wasn't there.
Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
Be sincere; be brief; be seated.
Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
Funny business, a woman's career: the things you drop on the way up the ladder so you can move faster. You forget you'll need them again when you get back to being a woman. It's one career all females have in common, whether we like it or not: being a woman.

Where we have strong emotions, we're liable to fool ourselves.

I opened my mouth, then shut it, then, very slowly, I held my hands up in front of me.
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.
If you scatter thorns, don't go barefoot.
I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters.
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.
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.
History is more or less bunk.

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.

Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.
Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.
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.
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 remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.
The engine died and then the doors swung open.

ponedjeljak, 26.07.2010.

Nonetheless, a substantial number of people have serious trouble with their drinking.

You're dealing with the demon of external validation. You can't beat external validation. You want to know why? Because it feels sooo good.
Better shun the bait, than struggle in the snare.
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.
Hares can gambol over the body of a dead lion.
We are made to persist. That's how we find out who we are.
You couldn't even prove the White House staff sane beyond a reasonable doubt.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

It often rains, both in winter and summer.

The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.
Without the capacity to provide its own information, the mind drifts into randomness.
The more freedom we enjoy, the greater the responsibility we bear, toward others as well as ourselves.
My head rang like a gong.
When you go into court you are putting your fate into the hands of twelve people who weren't smart enough to get out of jury duty.
The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
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.

Our patience will achieve more than our force.

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.
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.
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.
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.
All great truths begin as blasphemies.
We play the hands of cards life gives us. And the worst hands can make us the best players.
Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.

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 &

An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.
No.
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.
One thing I've learned in all these years is not to make love when you really don't feel it; there's probably nothing worse you can do to yourself than that.
A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms.
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.
If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.

Having a holiday weekend without a family member felt like putting on a sweater that had an extra arm.

As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
He who is not very strong in memory should not meddle with lying.
True friends are those who really know you but love you anyway.
Each body has its art...
As I get older, I've learned to listen to people rather than accuse them of things.
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
It really doesn't matter if the person who hurt you deserves to be forgiven. Forgiveness is a gift you give yourself. You have things to do and you want to move on.

One thing I've learned in all these years is not to make love when you really don't feel it; there's probably nothing worse you can do to yourself than that.

By learning to discover and value our ordinariness, we nurture a friendliness toward ourselves and the world that is the essence of a healthy soul.
...happiness gives us the energy which is the basis of health.
There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.
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.
The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
I gathered we were headed over Nob Hill, and from the angle, it seemed we were taking one of the steeper routes.
I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.

There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?

Take a two-mile walk every morning before breakfast.
The summer night is like a perfection of thought.
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.
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.
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.

As long as you derive inner help and comfort from anything, keep it.

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.
Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.
If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play at it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf.
It is wonderful how quickly you get used to things, even the most astonishing.
The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star.
Life engenders life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.

I like to read stories about heroes, great travelers, explorers, and courageous men.

The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.
There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.
Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that of another.
God creates men, but they choose each other.
Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
More bodies were roughly shoved in beside me.
Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster. Your life will never be the same again.

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

Keep cool and you command everybody.
Terrorists killed a lot fewer people than bathroom falls and accidental electrocutions.
They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.
This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer.
Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.
You need only claim the event of your life to make yourself yours. When you truly possess all you have been and done, which may take some time, you are fierce with reality.
O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.

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

If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.
There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth.
Liberals are very broadminded: they are always willing to give careful consideration to both sides of the same side.
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.
The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it.
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."
The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.

Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.

A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top .
I'm moving, but don't worry! Someone once told me we're all on the same planet, so I'll be okay!
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.
We need anything politically important rationed out like Pez: small, sweet, and coming out of a funny, plastic head.
A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of.
What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty.
He attacked everything in life with a mix of extrordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which was which.

The weather is not the same in different countries.

There are always survivors at a massacre. Among the victors, if nowhere else.
The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself.
Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone.
Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
A rumor without a leg to stand on will get around some other way.
Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.
Good breeding consists of concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.

Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.

I shouted, and earned a hard thump on my head for my trouble.
Van was screaming something and Jolu was shouting and I looked at them for a second and that was when someone put a coarse.
I 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.
Oh, I don't blame Congress. If I had $600 billion at my disposal, I'd be irresponsible, too.
Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.
When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.
Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.

That's why we get books in public libraries.

Only some people get what they want. Those are the people who show up to get it.
The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.
The summer night is like a perfection of thought.
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.
A hypocrite is a person who--but who isn't?
Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.
On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily lying down.

In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.

When you have got an elephant by the hind leg, and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.
There is an evil tendency underlying all our technology - the tendency to do what is reasonable even when it isn't any good.
My home is not a place, it is people.
Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
I don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is a language I don't understand.
The two symbols of the Republican Party: an elephant, and a big fat white guy who is threatened by change.
They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.

My first impressions about her were far from my opinion about her now. At first she seemed to me so correct, obedient and shy that I didn't like her at all, but when we began to communicate closer I understood I was mistaken. I think it makes sense to say

Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said.
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.
It's so much easier to write a resume than to craft a spirit.
There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.
Editor: a person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed.
A doctor saves lives -- It's up to people to create lives that are worth saving.

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

All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.
I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.
Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth?Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.
A moment later, I caught my breath, but I didn't say anything.
Whatever you do, do it to the purpose; do it thoroughly, not superficially. Go to the bottom of things. Any thing half done, or half known, is in my mind, neither done nor known at all. Nay, worse, for it often misleads.
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.

Well done is better than well said.

There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.
Think of life as a terminal illness, because, if you do, you will live it with joy and passion, as it ought to be lived.
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.
Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth?Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.
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.
Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.

There is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income.

The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.
Hearing voices no one else can hear isn't a good sign, even in the wizarding world.
In the right light, at the right time, everything is extraordinary.
We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe.
What some people mistake for the high cost of living is really the cost of high living.
My friend is one... who take me for what I am.
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.

In memory of that day bonfires are still lighted, fireworks shoot across the November sky and figures of Guy Fawker are burnt in the streets.

So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.
You freeze where you are, time stops, and your heart thunders in your ears.
Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper.
I used to believe that marriage would diminish me, reduce my options. That you had to be someone less to live with someone else when, of course, you have to be someone more.
There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.
The art of dining well is no slight art, the pleasure not a slight pleasure.
Writing gives you the illusion of control, and then you realize it's just an illusion, that people are going to bring their own stuff into it.

Joy is prayer - Joy is strength - Joy is love - Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.

All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.
The mellow sweetness of pumpkin pie off a prison spoon is something you will never forget.
Each body has its art...
'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.
My eyes swam and watered and I literally couldn't breathe through the pain.
There were millions of ways that the world could kill me.
The Past is to be respected and acknoledged, but not to be worshiped. It is our future in which we will find our greatness.

And non-governmental charity organizations become a single source for support of such projects.

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.
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.
Money doesn't always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are no happier than people with nine million dollars.
It's all right to have butterflies in your stomach. Just get them to fly in formation.
Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth?Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.
Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.
Early morning cheerfulness can be extremely obnoxious.

nedjelja, 25.07.2010.

For a main course you can order fish, meat or chicken with some rice or potatoes, also you can ask for pasta and salad.

I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for; perfection is God's business.
You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.
The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said.
A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.
I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
Everybody likes a kidder, but nobody lends him money.

Effects of Employee Drinking

We learn and grow and are transformed not so much by what we do but by why and how we do it.
A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done.
Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.
Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.
There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.
Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
When I was a kid my parents moved a lot, but I always found them.

We are always in search of the redeeming formula, the crystallizing thought.

It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.
Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.
Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.
What's the earth With all its art, verse, music, worth - Compared with love, found, gained, and kept?
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.
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.

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

Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.
It really doesn't matter if the person who hurt you deserves to be forgiven. Forgiveness is a gift you give yourself. You have things to do and you want to move on.
Somebody has to do something, and it's just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.
Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality... the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.
It's important to begin a search on a full stomach.
What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.

There is an evil tendency underlying all our technology - the tendency to do what is reasonable even when it isn't any good.

Each body has its art...
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 gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.
Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
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.
The people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego ordinary pleasures themselves and find compensation in interfering with the pleasures of others.

The scientific method of analyzing data and establishing hypotheses, a vital concomitant of academic freedom, was initiated during the Enlightenment , mainly by scholars outside university life such as Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, and Voltaire.

Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.
The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
A chess genius is a human being who focuses vast, little-understood mental gifts and labors on an ultimately trivial human enterprise.
A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
People fail forward to success.
When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest.
The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.

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.

Good taste is the enemy of comedy.
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.
Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written 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.
Learning to live in the present moment is part of the path of joy.
The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
Hares can gambol over the body of a dead lion.

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

I'd never really believed in terrorists before.
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.
It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.
It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right - especially when one is right.
An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.
Starting with getting run down by a drunk burning his way down Valencia -- that were infinitely more likely and immediate than terrorists.
Intimacy is being seen and known as the person you truly are.

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

Where so many hours have been spent in convincing myself that I am right, is there not some reason to fear I may be wrong?
I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.
The summer night is like a perfection of thought.
As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.
I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
He attacked everything in life with a mix of extrordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which was which.
The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.

subota, 24.07.2010.

Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.

Americans are benevolently ignorant about Canada, while Canadians are malevolently well informed about the United States.
They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
You should not live one way in private, another in public.
Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it.
We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.
A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms.

You need only claim the event of your life to make yourself yours. When you truly possess all you have been and done, which may take some time, you are fierce with reality.

At the mention of the word mace, the guy looked scared and kind of melted back, though the crowd kept him moving forward.
I hope that when I die, people say about me, 'Boy, that guy sure owed me a lot of money.'
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.
Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.
Worrying about them always struck me as about as useful as worrying about getting hit by lightning.
Sorrow was like the wind. It came in gusts.
Be a good listener. Your ears will never get you in trouble.

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 wha

There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.
All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.
The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others.

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.

Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.
Creative work is play. It is free speculation using materials of one's chosen form.
A man is too apt to forget that in this world he cannot have everything. A choice is all that is left him.
This is the challenge of writing. You have to be very emotionally engaged in what you?re doing, or it comes out flat. You can?t fake your way through this.
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.
I had no idea how much of this was making it through the muffling bag.
Beware the pull on your heartstrings -- it's often the pursestrings that are actually being reached for.

Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law?

To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
We don't get offered crises, they arrive.
I went up the stairs cautiously, not able to use my hands.
Never be a cynic, even a gentle one. Never help out a sneer, even at the devil.
Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.
Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach 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.

The nomination of the war hero Ulysses S. Grant assured Republican success over the Democrats led by Horatio Seymour in the presidential election of 1868.

Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.
Anger at lies lasts forever. Anger at truth can't last.
Intimacy is what makes a marriage, not a ceremony, not a piece of paper from the state.
A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done.
I never met anybody who said when they were a kid, "I wanna grow up and be a critic."
Sorrow was like the wind. It came in gusts.
You should not live one way in private, another in public.

Euclid is thought to have lived from 325-265 BC, mostly in Alexandria.

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.
Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards.
An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.
Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.
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 all right to have butterflies in your stomach. Just get them to fly in formation.
What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?

None are so busy as the fool and knave.

Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.
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.
All things are difficult before they are easy.
Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star.
My mother loved children -- she would have given anything if I had been one.
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.

What Is Alcohol Abuse?

Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.
We cannot deny the facts of nature, but we should certainly try to improve on them.
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
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.
You don't have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces - just good food from fresh ingredients.
I was gratified to be able to answer promptly. I said I don't know.

In the cultivated areas that make up most of Britain there are many wild flowers, flowering plants and grasses.

The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
They weren't wearing insignia.
Seize opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind.
He who boasts of his ancestry is praising the deeds of another.
Order is not pressure which is imposed on society from without, but an equilibrium which is set up from within.
When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.
Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.

You can only cure retail but you can prevent .

We play the hands of cards life gives us. And the worst hands can make us the best players.
All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.
Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.
Why do writers write? Because it isn't there.
It is only possible to live happily ever after on a day-to-day basis.
The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value.
Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable.

Memory feeds imagination.

I've been on a diet for two weeks and all I've lost is two weeks.
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
Better by far you should forget and smile than you should remember and be sad.
There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?
One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.
Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
A moment later, I caught my breath, but I didn't say anything.

History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind.

A rumor without a leg to stand on will get around some other way.
There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?
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.
There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth.
Be more prompt to go to a friend in adversity than in prosperity.
The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.
When I was a kid my parents moved a lot, but I always found them.

When should a person seek help for a problem related to his or her drinking?

Think of life as a terminal illness, because, if you do, you will live it with joy and passion, as it ought to be lived.
Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present.
The first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved without courting love. To be loved without 'playing up' to anyone - even to himself.
Your parents, they give you your life, but then they try to give you their life.
There is an evil tendency underlying all our technology - the tendency to do what is reasonable even when it isn't any good.
I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty... But I am too busy thinking about myself.
Who were these clowns?

There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers.

A doctor saves lives -- It's up to people to create lives that are worth saving.
Use what you have to run toward your best - that's how I now live my life.
We need anything politically important rationed out like Pez: small, sweet, and coming out of a funny, plastic head.
The better part of valor is discretion, in the which better part I have saved my life.
Editor: a person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed.
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
The car rocked back and forth and tipped uphill.

Each party had numerous almost irreconcilable factions, and each avoided taking any real stand on controversial issues, which were generally left to lesser political groups such as the Granger movement and the Greenback party .

The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.
The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.
Anger at lies lasts forever. Anger at truth can't last.
The undertaking of a new action brings new strength.

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

Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.
You can't deny laughter. When it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.
Order is not pressure which is imposed on society from without, but an equilibrium which is set up from within.
I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
The hands behind me gave me another shove.
Statistics: The only science that enables different experts using the same figures to draw different conclusions.
If you really do put a small value upon yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price.

Van was screaming something and Jolu was shouting and I looked at them for a second and that was when someone put a coarse.

We learn and grow and are transformed not so much by what we do but by why and how we do it.
Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
You could get on a boat there, get away. That fit with the terrorism hypothesis.
The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
My friend is one... who take me for what I am.
Man is only miserable so far as he thinks himself so.

petak, 23.07.2010.

I think we can't live without books.

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.
As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.
Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself...True happiness is born of self-reliance.
I phoned my dad to tell him I had stopped smoking. He called me a quitter.
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.
Even the best of friends need time apart.
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!

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.

If you don't know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else.
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.
What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?
A minute's success pays the failure of years.
I never vote for anyone; I always vote against.
Each individual woman's body demands to be accepted on its own terms.
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.

I am not sincere, even when I say I am not.

The great thing about a computer notebook is that no matter how much you stuff into it, it doesn't get bigger or heavier.
We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.
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.
You couldn't even prove the White House staff sane beyond a reasonable doubt.
My wish is to ride the tempest, tame the waves, kill the sharks. I will not resign myself...
If God had wanted us to vote, he would have given us candidates.
When they discover the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to discover they are not it.

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

Love truth, and pardon error.
The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.
Confidence is the sexiest thing a woman can have. It's much sexier than any body part.
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.
The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility.
The car rocked back and forth and tipped uphill.

There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.

Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
Arguments are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often convincing.
I never met anybody who said when they were a kid, "I wanna grow up and be a critic."
Above all things, never be afraid. The enemy who forces you to retreat is himself afraid of you at that very moment.
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.
Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.

The sky is always dull and overcast and it often rains, so there are pools on roads and cars splash the water on the passers-by.

Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.
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.
Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.
Worries go down better with soup than without.
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.
Confidence is the sexiest thing a woman can have. It's much sexier than any body part.
If you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome; if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent; if you believe the military, nothing is safe.

Everybody likes to go their own way--to choose their own time and manner of devotion.

Who were these clowns?
Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.
I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.
There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.
When you have got an elephant by the hind leg, and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.
Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.
Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.

Phaenomena is about planetary motions and Optics about perspectives.

Things are only impossible until they're not.
I never met anybody who said when they were a kid, "I wanna grow up and be a critic."
I feel very strongly that change is good because it stirs up the system.
Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth?Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.
It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.
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.
I am not sincere, even when I say I am not.

Dance is the hidden language of the soul.

The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.
Never let the demands of tomorrow interfere with the pleasures and excitement of today.
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.
There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.
Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself...True happiness is born of self-reliance.
Why the hell would terrorists kidnap a bunch of high school students?
I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.

srijeda, 21.07.2010.

Obscurity is a good thing. You can fail in obscurity. It removes the fear of failure.

Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.
The strongest possible piece of advice I would give any young woman is: Don't screw around, and don't smoke.
There is surely a piece of divinity in us, something that was before the elements, and owes no homage unto the sun.
You have to recognize when the right place and the right time fuse and take advantage of that opportunity. There are plenty of opportunities out there. You can't sit back and wait.
It is not enough to aim; you must hit.
Write a wise saying and your name will live forever.
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.

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

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.
You always pass failure on the way to success.
All movements go too far.
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.'
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.
My mother loved children -- she would have given anything if I had been one.
I used to think that the brain was the most wonderful organ in my body. Then I realized who was telling me this.

Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.

It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.
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?
Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.
A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done.
Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.
If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; If you would know, and not be known, live in a city.
Only some people get what they want. Those are the people who show up to get it.

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.

To achieve great things we must live as though we were never going to die.
None are so busy as the fool and knave.
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.
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.
The freedom of all is essential to my freedom.
Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day.
We were in the open concourse where the turnstiles were. It was hardly any better here -- the enclosed space sent the voices around us echoing back in a roar that made my head ring, and the smell and feeling of all those bodies made me feel a claustrophobia I'd never known I was prone to.

If I have got time I like to spend it with my favourite book.

I'd learned my lesson.
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.
God creates men, but they choose each other.
Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present.
History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind.
Think of life as a terminal illness, because, if you do, you will live it with joy and passion, as it ought to be lived.
Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.

To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level.

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.
Good breeding consists of concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.
People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.
The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself.
Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinions at all.
The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.
Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

History is more or less bunk.

We inhereit from our ancestors gifts so often taken for granted... Each of us contains within... this inheritance of soul. We are links between the ages, containing past and present expectations, sacred memories and future promise.
I am doomed to an eternity of compulsive work. No set goal achieved satisfies. Success only breeds a new goal. The golden apple devoured has seeds. It is endless.
The most beautiful adventures are not those we go to seek.
The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.
Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit.
I like to play blackjack. I'm not addicted to gambling, I'm addicted to sitting in a semi-circle.
It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.

The , which the doctor left, was made up at the chemist's.

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.
Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.
Listen. Do not have an opinion while you listen because frankly, your opinion doesn?t hold much water outside of Your Universe. Just listen. Listen until their brain has been twisted like a dripping towel and what they have to say is all over the floor.
I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.
The charity that hastens to proclaim its good deeds, ceases to be charity, and is only pride and ostentation.
Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.

Electricity is actually made up of extremely tiny particles called electrons, that you cannot see with the naked eye unless you have been drinking.

I never vote for anyone; I always vote against.
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.
Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn whatever state I am in, therin to be content
The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco.
Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.
If you want to be respected, you must respect yourself.
'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.

We should eat fats and sugars in moderation, because too much fats and sugars can cause different heart-diseases.

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.
For the most part, fear is nothing but an illusion. When you share it with someone else, it tends to disappear.
You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.
Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.
What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty.
Talking with you is sort of the conversational equivalent of an out of body experience.
There are no wise few. Every aristocracy that has ever existed has behaved, in all essential points, exactly like a small mob.

However, legislation itself creates only a certain legal environment, certain conditions for equality, but does not ensure their fulfillment.

Speak when you are angry--and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret.
Life engenders life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.
The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory.
Sack over my head and cinched it tight around my windpipe.
The most erroneous stories are those we think we know best - and therefore never scrutinize or question.

Look at all the sentences which seem true and question them.

If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play at it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf.
A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money.
I barely had time to register them before those rifles were pointed at me.
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.
See things as they are and write about them. Don?t waste your creative energy trying to make things up. Even if you are writing fiction, write the things you see and know.
We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe.
As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.

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

It really doesn't matter if the person who hurt you deserves to be forgiven. Forgiveness is a gift you give yourself. You have things to do and you want to move on.
Eat a third and drink a third and leave the remaining third of your stomach empty. Then, when you get angry, there will be sufficient room for your rage.
Why do writers write? Because it isn't there.
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
Your world is made of your memories, and your memories are given to you by your world. The whispering voice of happenstance is always in our ears. 'This is the world. This is the way things are. Look. Pay attention. Remember.'
It's very hard to take yourself too seriously when you look at the world from outer space.
History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind.

I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.

Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.
Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.
It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.
He had learned over the years that poor people did not feel so poor when allowed to give occasionally.
After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.
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.
All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.

Its area is about the United States (without Alaska) -7,7 square km.

It is never too late to give up our prejudices.
Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
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.
Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, not swallowed.
What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!
They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.
Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.

She accurately described the process because she had learned a lot about poisons and other chemicals during World War II, while working in a hospital.

In the right light, at the right time, everything is extraordinary.
He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.
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.
The Americans have need of the telephone, but we do not. We have plenty of messenger boys.
I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters.
It is fortunate to be of high birth, but it is no less so to be of such character that people do not care to know whether you are or are not.
I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars.

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.

If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
Sorrow was like the wind. It came in gusts.
I feel very strongly that change is good because it stirs up the system.
The great thing about a computer notebook is that no matter how much you stuff into it, it doesn't get bigger or heavier.
Nothing is said that has not been said before.
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?
Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.

Have patience awhile; slanders are not long-lived. Truth is the child of time; erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee.

The Americans have need of the telephone, but we do not. We have plenty of messenger boys.
We are made to persist. That's how we find out who we are.
A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done.
Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality.
Sometimes the cure for restlessness is rest.
A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few; and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.

utorak, 20.07.2010.

It doesn?t matter what kind ? with raspberry favor, with marmalade, chocolate chips or pieces of fruit.

Keep your broken arm inside your sleeve.
The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
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.
Van was screaming something and Jolu was shouting and I looked at them for a second and that was when someone put a coarse.
Sooner or later, we've got to work at it, no matter how many other careers we've had or wanted.
Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself...True happiness is born of self-reliance.
Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.

The division was made complete when, after Lincoln's assassination, his successor, Andrew Johnson , adopted a moderate program of Reconstruction . Johnson, a Jacksonian Democrat from Tennessee, had been added to the ticket in 1864 to strengthen the idea o

Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that of another.
Typos are very important to all written form. It gives the reader something to look for so they aren't distracted by the total lack of content in your writing.
He was one of those men who think that the world can be saved by writing a pamphlet.
I've never quite believed that one chance is all I get.
We inhereit from our ancestors gifts so often taken for granted... Each of us contains within... this inheritance of soul. We are links between the ages, containing past and present expectations, sacred memories and future promise.
Deeds, not words shall speak me.
There is no nonsense so errant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action.

True friends are those who really know you but love you anyway.

To repeat what others have said, requires education; to challenge it, requires brains.
We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language.
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.
Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.
People fail forward to success.
I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
It's a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn't want to hear.

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

Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.
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.
What some people mistake for the high cost of living is really the cost of high living.
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.
My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists.
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
Terrorists killed a lot fewer people than bathroom falls and accidental electrocutions.

It gives you a unique chance to link up with authors who lived hundreds and thousands years ago.

A doctor saves lives -- It's up to people to create lives that are worth saving.
When you want to believe in something, you also have to believe in everything that's necessary for believing in it.
Worries go down better with soup than without.
Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.
Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today.
Hearing voices no one else can hear isn't a good sign, even in the wizarding world.
Treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.

I was the kid next door's imaginary friend.

When you want to believe in something, you also have to believe in everything that's necessary for believing in it.
I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.
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.
Where we have strong emotions, we're liable to fool ourselves.
All movements go too far.
Use what you have to run toward your best - that's how I now live my life.
If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.

Despite not winning the popular vote.

No.
Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.
You don't have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces - just good food from fresh ingredients.
Better shun the bait, than struggle in the snare.
You should not live one way in private, another in public.
I got up the third step and reached for the fourth, but it wasn't there.
I never met anybody who said when they were a kid, "I wanna grow up and be a critic."

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

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.
We rarely think people have good sense unless they agree with us.
The great thing about a computer notebook is that no matter how much you stuff into it, it doesn't get bigger or heavier.
The mellow sweetness of pumpkin pie off a prison spoon is something you will never forget.
Our patience will achieve more than our force.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.

If it weren't for baseball, many kids wouldn't know what a millionaire looked like.

Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.
All movements go too far.
Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.
What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say.
Order is not pressure which is imposed on society from without, but an equilibrium which is set up from within.
Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.
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.

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

The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said.
Act as if it were impossible to fail.
If there's one thing I know it's God does love a good joke.
We learn something every day, and lots of times it's that what we learned the day before was wrong.
To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all.
Do not envy a sinner; you don't know what disaster awaits him.
You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.

Best wide-angle lens? Two steps backward. Look for the 'ah-ha'.

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!
Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.
Rest is the sweet sauce of labor.
An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.
What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty.
Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.

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.

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.
Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.
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!
Skiing combines outdoor fun with knocking down trees with your face.
Winning is important to me, but what brings me real joy is the experience of being fully engaged in whatever I'm doing.
Starting with getting run down by a drunk burning his way down Valencia -- that were infinitely more likely and immediate than terrorists.
Doubt 'til thou canst doubt no more...doubt is thought and thought is life. Systems which end doubt are devices for drugging thought.

The Red Sea is linked with the Gulf of Aden and the Arabian Sea by the straits of Bab el Mandeb.

Look at all the sentences which seem true and question them.
Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.
The more freedom we enjoy, the greater the responsibility we bear, toward others as well as ourselves.
You know what's interesting about Washington? It's the kind of place where second-guessing has become second nature.
There are always survivors at a massacre. Among the victors, if nowhere else.
O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.
Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.

We can hardly say that today there exist the problem of choosing a type of housing.

I don't generally feel anything until noon; then it's time for my nap.
...happiness gives us the energy which is the basis of health.
By learning to discover and value our ordinariness, we nurture a friendliness toward ourselves and the world that is the essence of a healthy soul.
Best wide-angle lens? Two steps backward. Look for the 'ah-ha'.
No one goes there nowadays, it's too crowded.
Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack.
Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.

To be a well prepared engineer I should have some important qualities: great capability persistance, knowledge of science and, of course, knowledge of foreign languages.

Use what you have to run toward your best - that's how I now live my life.
The crux... is that the vast majority of the mass of the universe seems to be missing.
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.
Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.
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 greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.
Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up.

Amounts large and famous American cities are Chicago, Boston, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, San Francisco and New York.

Writing gives you the illusion of control, and then you realize it's just an illusion, that people are going to bring their own stuff into it.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.
We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.
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.
Keep true to the dreams of thy youth.
The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.
Things won are done; joy's soul lies in the doing.

Choosing a comfortable hotel to stay at is, therefore, a matter of some importance.

Editor: a person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed.
I don't generally feel anything until noon; then it's time for my nap.
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.
It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.
To be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.

Another ex-Union general, James A. Garfield , was nominated and was elected over a Democratic general, Winfield S. Hancock.

Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.
Each body has its art...
Censorship, like charity, should begin at home; but, unlike charity, it should end there.
He who laughs, lasts!
Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
It is fortunate to be of high birth, but it is no less so to be of such character that people do not care to know whether you are or are not.
I ended up stepping on her stomach as the crowd pushed me past her, but by then I don't think she was feeling anything.

nedjelja, 18.07.2010.

Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives.

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.
There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.
Students achieving Oneness will move on to Twoness.
No great improvements in the lot of mankind are possible until a great change takes place in the fundamental constitution of their modes of thought.
I don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is a language I don't understand.
Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.
I say luck is when an opportunity comes along, and you're prepared for it.

Look at all the sentences which seem true and question them.

The older I grow, the less important the comma becomes. Let the reader catch his own breath.
It is impossible to walk rapidly and be unhappy.
The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.
Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.
An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought.
Be thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till all commend.
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.

If you refuse to be made straight when you are green, you will not be made straight when you are dry.

You couldn't even prove the White House staff sane beyond a reasonable doubt.
We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language.
I was sick of cars driving right past me.
Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.
You're dealing with the demon of external validation. You can't beat external validation. You want to know why? Because it feels sooo good.
I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.

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.

I feel very strongly that change is good because it stirs up the system.
Make a decision, even if it's wrong.
As I neared her, I bent to help her up, and was nearly knocked over her.
Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.
Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
Anger at lies lasts forever. Anger at truth can't last.
It's so much easier to write a resume than to craft a spirit.

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

Only some people get what they want. Those are the people who show up to get it.
To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level.
At the mention of the word mace, the guy looked scared and kind of melted back, though the crowd kept him moving forward.
See things as they are and write about them. Don?t waste your creative energy trying to make things up. Even if you are writing fiction, write the things you see and know.
Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.
I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.
If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play at it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf.

It can also cause liver cirrhosis, immune system problems, brain damage, and harm to the fetus during pregnancy. In addition, drinking increases the risk of death from automobile crashes, recreational accidents, and on-the-job accidents and also increases

You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.
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.
There ain't no free lunches in this country. And don't go spending your whole life commiserating that you got raw deals. You've got to say, 'I think that if I keep working at this and want it bad enough I can have it.'
Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.
Order is not pressure which is imposed on society from without, but an equilibrium which is set up from within.
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.

Write a wise saying and your name will live forever.

Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.
You can go a long way with bad legs and a good head.
He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.
For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
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.
Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that you live, if you do.
There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.

All programmers are playwrights and all computers are lousy actors.

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success. Talent is only a starting point in this business. You've got to keep on working that talent. Someday I'll reach for it and it won't be there.
The scornful nostril and the high head gather not the odors that lie on the track of truth.
It's important to begin a search on a full stomach.
My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-seven now, and we don't know where the hell she is.
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.
Hollywood is a place where they place you under contract instead of under observation.

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!

I'd never looked down the barrel of a gun before, but everything you've heard about the experience is true.
Anger at lies lasts forever. Anger at truth can't last.
Order is not pressure which is imposed on society from without, but an equilibrium which is set up from within.
You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
I guess we'd be living in a boring, perfect world if everybody wished everybody else well.
Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity.
It's the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion.

He who laughs, lasts!

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.
Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousand of miles and all the years you have lived.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.
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.
The car rocked back and forth and tipped uphill.
Vanessa didn't like it, but I figured a cop wasn't going to stop for a kid waving his hat in the street, not that day. They just might stop if they saw Darryl bleeding there, though. I argued briefly with her and Darryl settled it by lurching to his feet and dragging himself down toward Market Street.
Skiing combines outdoor fun with knocking down trees with your face.

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.

None are so busy as the fool and knave.
We bear the world and we make it... There was never a great man who had not a great mother - it is hardly an exaggeration.
The most erroneous stories are those we think we know best - and therefore never scrutinize or question.
Be sincere; be brief; be seated.
Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.
We cannot deny the facts of nature, but we should certainly try to improve on them.
Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.

subota, 17.07.2010.

If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody.

Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.
Our patience will achieve more than our force.
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.
An idea is salvation by imagination.
People were still cramming down the stairs, and more were squeezing past the turnstiles and down the escalators onto the platforms, but it was clear to me that this wasn't going to have a happy ending.
The Past is to be respected and acknoledged, but not to be worshiped. It is our future in which we will find our greatness.
Whatever you fear most has no power - it is your fear that has the power.

Many larger mammals such as bear, wolf have been hunted to extinction, others are now protected by law.

If you really do put a small value upon yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price.
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 trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.
When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest.
History is more or less bunk.
Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
As I neared her, I bent to help her up, and was nearly knocked over her.

Always after a hard day I return home and think "At last I came home". For me there is no place like home.

By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd be grown up.
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.
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.
Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.
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.
I opened my mouth, then shut it, then, very slowly, I held my hands up in front of me.
Act as if it were impossible to fail.

Do not envy a sinner; you don't know what disaster awaits him.

The mellow sweetness of pumpkin pie off a prison spoon is something you will never forget.
Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb.
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.
Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.
So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.
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.

You can have it all. You just can't have it all at once.

The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.
I?m telling you, things are getting out of hand. Or maybe I?m discovering that things were never in my hands.
I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.
No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.
When you want to believe in something, you also have to believe in everything that's necessary for believing in it.
When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.
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 nonsense so errant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action.

Truly great madness cannot be achieved without significant intelligence.
People will buy anything that is one to a customer.
Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half the time.
I like to play blackjack. I'm not addicted to gambling, I'm addicted to sitting in a semi-circle.
Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.
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.
Some people make headlines while others make history.

The doctor came, removed his coat and put on his white gown.

You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are; but you must approach each man by the right door.
Liberals are very broadminded: they are always willing to give careful consideration to both sides of the same side.
You could get on a boat there, get away. That fit with the terrorism hypothesis.
A moment later, I caught my breath, but I didn't say anything.
The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.
Hope is tomorrow's veneer over today's disappointment.
Best wide-angle lens? Two steps backward. Look for the 'ah-ha'.

The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.

Hearing voices no one else can hear isn't a good sign, even in the wizarding world.
I gathered we were headed over Nob Hill, and from the angle, it seemed we were taking one of the steeper routes.
If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.
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.
Life engenders life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.
Van's sweater was soaked in blood.
Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

četvrtak, 15.07.2010.

If nothing is done about it, one million species that are alive today will have become extinct twenty years from now.

Most of the basic truths of life sound absurd at first hearing.
The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.
Never let the demands of tomorrow interfere with the pleasures and excitement of today.
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.
Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.
Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.

Optimism and hope are our best friends. Let?s reach out and Laugh together at our confounding traits and still, let?s keep in mind that our sympt oms and traits are very real with consequences, never to be underestimated or discounted.

If 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.
Most advances in science come when a person for one reason or another is forced to change fields.
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.
Everybody likes a kidder, but nobody lends him money.
Do it now. It is not safe to leave a generous feeling to the cooling influences of the world.
Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.
A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money.

The lion and the calf shall lie down together but the calf won't get much sleep.

I use an optimistic, positive approach to deal with my symptoms and it came the hard way, before I learned to laugh with myself a little.
Don't mace him!" I shouted over the din. "You'll get us all too.
Know, first, who you are; and then adorn yourself accordingly.
Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
People fail forward to success.
The car slewed to a stop and only then did I notice that it wasn't a cop car, ambulance or fire-engine.
In the absences of a decent time machine, fiction remains the most sturdy vehicle for visiting other eras.

The weather is not as good as in spring and in summer.

Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
I have been through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.
We think in generalities, but we live in detail.
When I came back to Dublin I was courtmartialed in my absence and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.
By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd be grown up.
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 your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.

As you have some land around the house you can build outhouses; and if I lived in a detached house I would certainly build a garage, a summer house, maybe a padding pool and certainly I would arrange some flowerbeds as I adore flowers.

Having a holiday weekend without a family member felt like putting on a sweater that had an extra arm.
Equal opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent.
Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
Keep your broken arm inside your sleeve.
I stand in awe of my body.
You don't have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces - just good food from fresh ingredients.
The car rocked back and forth and tipped uphill.

I don't think about risks much. I just do what I want to do. If you gotta go, you gotta go.

I'm struck by the insidious, computer-driven tendency to take things out of the domain of muscular activity and put them into the domain of mental activity. The transfer is not paying off. Sure, muscles are unreliable, but they represent several million years of accumulated finesse.
I use an optimistic, positive approach to deal with my symptoms and it came the hard way, before I learned to laugh with myself a little.
There 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.'
Is there life before death?
I was sick of cars driving right past me.
Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to be caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self.
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.

In the British homes there has been no central heating up till recently.

You don't get anything clean without getting something else dirty.
It's a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn't want to hear.
I never met anybody who said when they were a kid, "I wanna grow up and be a critic."
The world tolerates conceit from those who are successful, but not from anybody else.
Maybe they were terrorists!
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.
Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.

In one study of 832 workers at a large manufacturing plant, workers on evening shifts, during which supervision was reduced, were more likely than those on other shifts to report drinking at work.

Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.
People were still cramming down the stairs, and more were squeezing past the turnstiles and down the escalators onto the platforms, but it was clear to me that this wasn't going to have a happy ending.
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
By learning to discover and value our ordinariness, we nurture a friendliness toward ourselves and the world that is the essence of a healthy soul.
Whatever you fear most has no power - it is your fear that has the power.
Do something. If it doesn't work, do something else. No idea is too crazy.
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.

A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down.

Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.
I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
Experience is a good teacher, but she send in terrific bills.
When you have got an elephant by the hind leg, and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.
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.
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.

Sooner or later, we've got to work at it, no matter how many other careers we've had or wanted.

Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far.
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.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
I'd never really believed in terrorists before.
There are a terrible lot of lies going around the world, and the worst of it is half of them are true.
You cannot be mad at somebody who makes you laugh - it's as simple as that.
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.

Six months later, participants reported less work-related stress, higher social support, and less alcohol use compared with a control group. Twenty-two months later, participants reported greater use of coping strategies and less drinking.

The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
The only difference between a rut and a grave... is in their dimensions.
When all is said and done, the weather and love are the two elements about which one can never be sure.
Many people weigh the guilt they will feel against the pleasure of the forbidden action they want to take.
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.
Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law?
You can only cure retail but you can prevent .

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

Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to be caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self.
The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.
Somebody has to do something, and it's just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.
Late to bed and late to wake will keep you long on money and short on mistakes.
Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.

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.

You have to recognize when the right place and the right time fuse and take advantage of that opportunity. There are plenty of opportunities out there. You can't sit back and wait.
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.
He attacked everything in life with a mix of extrordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which was which.
What's another word for Thesaurus?
Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.
Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn't block traffic.
...happiness gives us the energy which is the basis of health.

Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper.

Things are only impossible until they're not.
Listen. Do not have an opinion while you listen because frankly, your opinion doesn?t hold much water outside of Your Universe. Just listen. Listen until their brain has been twisted like a dripping towel and what they have to say is all over the floor.
I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
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.
I feel about airplanes the way I feel about diets. It seems to me they are wonderful things for other people to go on.
You create your opportunities by asking for them.
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.

Art is science made clear.

My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-seven now, and we don't know where the hell she is.
I don't generally feel anything until noon; then it's time for my nap.
Seize opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind.
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.
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.
Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that of another.
Worries go down better with soup than without.

My home is not a place, it is people.

At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.
The most beautiful adventures are not those we go to seek.
He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.
A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
A hobby a day keeps the doldrums away.
The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said.
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.

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!

By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd be grown up.
In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the next meal would come from.
To try to be better is to be better.
Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself...True happiness is born of self-reliance.
Writing gives you the illusion of control, and then you realize it's just an illusion, that people are going to bring their own stuff into it.
More movement, and the sense of bodies being shackled in alongside of me.
It is not enough to aim; you must hit.

Darryl wasn't in good shape -- he was white-faced and panting.

If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.
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.
I guess we'd be living in a boring, perfect world if everybody wished everybody else well.
Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.
Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.
The pain of making the necessary sacrifices always hurts more than you think it's going to. I know. It sucks. That being said, doing something seriously creative is one of the most amazing experiences one can have, in this or any other lifetime. If you can pull it off, it's worth it. Even if you don't end up pulling it off, you'll learn many incredible, magical, valuable things. It's NOT doing it when you know you full well you HAD the opportunity- that hurts FAR more than any failure.
If men could only know each other, they would neither idolize nor hate.

srijeda, 14.07.2010.

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

I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.
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.
The average person thinks he isn't.
It is fortunate to be of high birth, but it is no less so to be of such character that people do not care to know whether you are or are not.
Sorrow was like the wind. It came in gusts.
The faceless, eyeless armed man above me kept his gun very level.
The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.

I consider that books are with us during all our life.

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.
I am not sincere, even when I say I am not.
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!
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.
Hope is tomorrow's veneer over today's disappointment.
Order is not pressure which is imposed on society from without, but an equilibrium which is set up from within.
Where facts are few, experts are many.

I was the kid next door's imaginary friend.

The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.
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?
So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.
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.
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.
Part of being creative is learning how to protect your freedom. That includes freedom from avarice.
That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.

Van was screaming something and Jolu was shouting and I looked at them for a second and that was when someone put a coarse.

Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.
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.
More movement, and the sense of bodies being shackled in alongside of me.
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 chess genius is a human being who focuses vast, little-understood mental gifts and labors on an ultimately trivial human enterprise.
Vegetarianism is harmless enough, though it is apt to fill a man with wind and self-righteousness.
Sometimes the cure for restlessness is rest.

People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.

The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.
Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.
My mother loved children -- she would have given anything if I had been one.
One of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish had been left unsaid.
More movement, and the sense of bodies being shackled in alongside of me.
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.
He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.

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.

In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the next meal would come from.
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.
Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.
If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk?
There is no stigma attached to recognizing a bad decision in time to install a better one.
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?
Bacchus hath drowned more men than Neptune.

The first vehicle that screamed past -- an ambulance -- didn't even slow down.

The hands behind me gave me another shove.
By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd be grown up.
I am not sincere, even when I say I am not.
The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.
Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.
A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.
Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half the time.

? Recurring alcohol-related legal problems, such as being arrested for driving under the influence of alcohol or for physically hurting someone while drunk;

Part of being creative is learning how to protect your freedom. That includes freedom from avarice.
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.
Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack.
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
By learning to discover and value our ordinariness, we nurture a friendliness toward ourselves and the world that is the essence of a healthy soul.
The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.
The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.

More bodies were roughly shoved in beside me.

There?s so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets?
I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.
Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.
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.
Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb.
Is there life before death?
I don't like composers who think. It gets in the way of their plagiarism.

utorak, 13.07.2010.

They are also ready to give all necessary information.

Keep true to the dreams of thy youth.
There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.
Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.
If men could only know each other, they would neither idolize nor hate.
We are what we repeatedly do.
The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco.

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

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.
Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.
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.
We were in the open concourse where the turnstiles were. It was hardly any better here -- the enclosed space sent the voices around us echoing back in a roar that made my head ring, and the smell and feeling of all those bodies made me feel a claustrophobia I'd never known I was prone to.
You can only cure retail but you can prevent .
I don't think about risks much. I just do what I want to do. If you gotta go, you gotta go.
The Past is to be respected and acknoledged, but not to be worshiped. It is our future in which we will find our greatness.

Effects of Employee Drinking

I am not sincere, even when I say I am not.
Joy is prayer - Joy is strength - Joy is love - Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
Never eat more than you can lift.
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.
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.
A man is too apt to forget that in this world he cannot have everything. A choice is all that is left him.
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

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.

It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.
It is impossible to walk rapidly and be unhappy.
He was one of those men who think that the world can be saved by writing a pamphlet.
To err is human, but to really foul things up requires a computer.
There are always survivors at a massacre. Among the victors, if nowhere else.
A man can do all things if he but wills them.
When you make a mistake, don't look back at it long. Take the reason of the thing into your mind and then look forward. Mistakes are lessons of wisdom. The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.

We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.

Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less.
Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.
You can't deny laughter. When it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.
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.'
You should not live one way in private, another in public.
The engine died and then the doors swung open.
Now is the time for all good men to come to.

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.

The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth that it prevents you from achieving.
We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.
Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.
Beware the pull on your heartstrings -- it's often the pursestrings that are actually being reached for.
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 the kid next door's imaginary friend.
The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.

Fig Newton: The force required to accelerate a fig 39.37 inches per sec.

What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty.
Statistics: The only science that enables different experts using the same figures to draw different conclusions.
Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.
For the most part, fear is nothing but an illusion. When you share it with someone else, it tends to disappear.
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.
Liberals are very broadminded: they are always willing to give careful consideration to both sides of the same side.

Proponents of population regulation believe this is caused by a combination of population growth and unwillingness of the wealthy to share the world's wealth and resources more fairly.

I never met anybody who said when they were a kid, "I wanna grow up and be a critic."
I have been through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.
What's another word for Thesaurus?
Neither did the cop car that went past, nor the firetruck, nor the next three cop-cars.
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.
He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.
The average person thinks he isn't.

I use an optimistic, positive approach to deal with my symptoms and it came the hard way, before I learned to laugh with myself a little.

He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.
No one goes there nowadays, it's too crowded.
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.
The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.
You never find yourself until you face the truth.
Treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.
Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.

Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge.

Depend not on fortune, but on conduct.
I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.
Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.
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.
History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind.
Well done is better than well said.
The better part of valor is discretion, in the which better part I have saved my life.

The library is helpful when I have to make a report, when I need information on some subjects.

When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time.
Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.
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.
Bear in mind that you should conduct yourself in life as at a feast.
I have been through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.
Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.

British people say: "Other countries have a climate, in England we have weather."

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.
Sorrow was like the wind. It came in gusts.
Assuming either the Left Wing or the Right Wing gained control of the country, it would probably fly around in circles.
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
I was in total darkness now and I strained my ears to hear what was going on with my friends.
I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.
Worrying about them always struck me as about as useful as worrying about getting hit by lightning.

There are a lot of films which are worth seeing, but this one is the best one to my mind.

If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play at it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf.
A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down.
Play: Work that you enjoy doing for nothing.
Part of being creative is learning how to protect your freedom. That includes freedom from avarice.
One of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish had been left unsaid.
It was a military-looking Jeep, like an armored Hummer, only it didn't have any military insignia on it.
The crowd gives the leader new strength.

Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

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?
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
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.
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?
When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.
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.
Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.

Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.

History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind.
It's the opinion of some that crops could be grown on the moon. Which raises the fear that it may not be long before we're paying somebody not to.
I am 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.
A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory.
It is never too late to give up our prejudices.
God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
I was pushed roughly but dispassionately onto my stomach and something went twice around my wrists and then tightened up as well, feeling like baling wire and biting cruelly.

It's 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'.

I didn't even breathe.
No.
No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.
I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.
Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.
When someone does something good, applaud! You will make two people happy.
The trick is to make sure you don't die waiting for prosperity to come.

I'm sure that I'm a happy person: I have many friends, loving parents, goals in my life, etc.

Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.
There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.
Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.
In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.
I was in total darkness now and I strained my ears to hear what was going on with my friends.
The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt.
I define comfort as self-acceptance. When we finally learn that self-care begins and ends with ourselves, we no longer demand sustenance and happiness from others.

petak, 09.07.2010.

There are plently of good hotels, motels, and guest houses, in the world, conviently located for major business centers.

Part of being creative is learning how to protect your freedom. That includes freedom from avarice.
I like to play blackjack. I'm not addicted to gambling, I'm addicted to sitting in a semi-circle.
Love truth, and pardon error.
No.
A joke's a very serious thing.
Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anyone else.
What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty.

Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.

More bodies were roughly shoved in beside me.
It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.
I heard Jolu respond, then felt the thump he was dealt, too.
You can have it all. You just can't have it all at once.
Some people make headlines while others make history.
The average person thinks he isn't.
What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say.

Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.

It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't.
The summer night is like a perfection of thought.
The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
There is an applause superior to that of the multitudes: one's own.
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 is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.

But it has a great deal to do with a person's uncontrollable need for alcohol.

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!
Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid.
The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.
Censorship, like charity, should begin at home; but, unlike charity, it should end there.
The art of dining well is no slight art, the pleasure not a slight pleasure.
All things are difficult before they are easy.
Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.

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.

Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.
Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up.
Having a holiday weekend without a family member felt like putting on a sweater that had an extra arm.
Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
Only some people get what they want. Those are the people who show up to get it.
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.

If present trends continue for the next several decades, our planet will become uninhabitable.

Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnecessary.
It is hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head.
Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose.
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.
I was gratified to be able to answer promptly. I said I don't know.
I'd never looked down the barrel of a gun before, but everything you've heard about the experience is true.

Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.

There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
Know, first, who you are; and then adorn yourself accordingly.
Facts are the enemy of truth.
Health consists of having the same diseases as one's neighbors.
Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives.
My eyes swam and watered and I literally couldn't breathe through the pain.
Electricity is actually made up of extremely tiny particles called electrons, that you cannot see with the naked eye unless you have been drinking.

Everyone wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant.

Nothing changes your opinion of a friend so surely as success - yours or his.
Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth?Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.
I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.
The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.
Don't mace him!" I shouted over the din. "You'll get us all too.
If our early lessons of acceptance were as successful as our early lessons of anger, how much happier we would all be.
Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.

College isn't the place to go for ideas.

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.
A moment later, I caught my breath, but I didn't say anything.
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.
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
This is the challenge of writing. You have to be very emotionally engaged in what you?re doing, or it comes out flat. You can?t fake your way through this.
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.

He who is not very strong in memory should not meddle with lying.

Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack.
Keep true to the dreams of thy youth.
Nobody is ever met at the airport when beginning a new adventure. It's just not done.
What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?
Van was screaming something and Jolu was shouting and I looked at them for a second and that was when someone put a coarse.
All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance.
One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.

Eat a third and drink a third and leave the remaining third of your stomach empty. Then, when you get angry, there will be sufficient room for your rage.

The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out the conservative adopts them.
I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.
I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
People fail forward to success.
I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate.
Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
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'.

Alcohol Availability.

There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.
Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
I think it is good that books still exist, but they do make me sleepy.
The car slewed to a stop and only then did I notice that it wasn't a cop car, ambulance or fire-engine.
Think of life as a terminal illness, because, if you do, you will live it with joy and passion, as it ought to be lived.
Never eat more than you can lift.
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.

The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry is like the potato - the best part under ground.

College isn't the place to go for ideas.
Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.
It felt like they used a baton or something -- it was harder than anyone had ever hit me in the head before.
The first vehicle that screamed past -- an ambulance -- didn't even slow down.
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?
Let not the sands of time get in your lunch.
Think of yourself as an incandescent power, illuminated and perhaps forever talked to by God and his messengers.

You never know how a horse will pull until you hook him up to a heavy load.

Terrorists killed a lot fewer people than bathroom falls and accidental electrocutions.
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
By learning to discover and value our ordinariness, we nurture a friendliness toward ourselves and the world that is the essence of a healthy soul.
Sorrow was like the wind. It came in gusts.
The summer night is like a perfection of thought.
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!
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.

She wasn't a professional and had never been one.

When all is said and done, the weather and love are the two elements about which one can never be sure.
O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.
A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnecessary.
Is there life before death?
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 feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to be caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self.
Art is science made clear.

My mother fixed me a hot lemonade but that didn't help me much.

Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain.
I kept talking. "Listen -- this is some kind of misunderstanding.
I have always felt that a politician is to be judged by the animosities he excites among his opponents.
If my mental map was right, we were heading down to Fisherman's Wharf.
Neither did the cop car that went past, nor the firetruck, nor the next three cop-cars.
There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.
When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers.

Fresh clean sheets are one of life's small joys.

Think of life as a terminal illness, because, if you do, you will live it with joy and passion, as it ought to be lived.
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.
I say luck is when an opportunity comes along, and you're prepared for it.
There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?
The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
I must create a system, or be enslaved by another man's.
Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch.

Everyone wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant.

You have no control over what the other guy does. You only have control over what you do.
By learning to discover and value our ordinariness, we nurture a friendliness toward ourselves and the world that is the essence of a healthy soul.
You freeze where you are, time stops, and your heart thunders in your ears.
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.
To try to be better is to be better.
The world tolerates conceit from those who are successful, but not from anybody else.
No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.