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utorak, 26.10.2010.

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

The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth that it prevents you from achieving.
They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.
I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.
The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all of your time.
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.
I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.
I mean, I knew that in the abstract there were terrorists somewhere in the world, but they didn't really represent any risk to me.

When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers.

All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.
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.
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 crowd gives the leader new strength.
Use what you have to run toward your best - that's how I now live my life.
Van's sweater was soaked in blood.
Facts are the enemy of truth.

Agatha Christie created two major characters for her stories.

We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.
Speak when you are angry--and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret.
I'm moving, but don't worry! Someone once told me we're all on the same planet, so I'll be okay!
To do anything truly worth doing, I must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in with gusto and scramble through as well as I can.
I believe that every now and then it is important to laugh at ourselves and take a lighter approach to our life conditions.
If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.
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.

If you really do put a small value upon yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price.

I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
Make a decision, even if it's wrong.
We've got to get my friend to a hospital --"
Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.
Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less.
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.
Each individual woman's body demands to be accepted on its own terms.

If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; If you would know, and not be known, live in a city.

Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.
I've never quite believed that one chance is all I get.
I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty... But I am too busy thinking about myself.
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.
The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnecessary.
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.

His administration rivaled Grant's for corruption, but after Harding died in office, his successor, Calvin Coolidge , was returned over John W. Davis and La Follette.

Seize opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind.
Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
What makes the engine go? Desire, desire, desire.
A smiling face is half the meal.
To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.
The great thing about a computer notebook is that no matter how much you stuff into it, it doesn't get bigger or heavier.

Yet it is important to recognize that aspects of a person's environment, such as peer influences and the availability of alcohol, also are significant influences.

Thomas Jefferson once said, 'We should never judge a president by his age, only by his works.' And ever since he told me that, I stopped worrying.
It is hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head.
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.
Sometimes love will pick you up by the short hairs...and jerk the heck out of you.
The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.
The faceless, eyeless armed man above me kept his gun very level.
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.

Maybe the most any of us can expect of ourselves isn't perfection but progress.

For me, it's that I contributed, ... That I'm on this planet doing some good and making people happy. That's to me the most important thing, that my hour of television is positive and upbeat and an antidote for all the negative stuff going on in life.
The mellow sweetness of pumpkin pie off a prison spoon is something you will never forget.
Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards.
I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
Above all things, never be afraid. The enemy who forces you to retreat is himself afraid of you at that very moment.
No one goes there nowadays, it's too crowded.
Never eat more than you can lift.

The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.

I feel about airplanes the way I feel about diets. It seems to me they are wonderful things for other people to go on.
He attacked everything in life with a mix of extrordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which was which.
That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.
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.
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.
We are always in search of the redeeming formula, the crystallizing thought.
We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language.

It is better to wear out than to rust out.

Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge.
My theory of evolution is that Darwin was adopted.
I don't like composers who think. It gets in the way of their plagiarism.
All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.
The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.
Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
The summer night is like a perfection of thought.

Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.

You freeze where you are, time stops, and your heart thunders in your ears.
So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.
Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.
People fail forward to success.
Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.
The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
You can have it all. You just can't have it all at once.

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

You cannot be mad at somebody who makes you laugh - it's as simple as that.
Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
The crowd gives the leader new strength.
The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.
We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.
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?

The importance of home is depicted in languages of all the nations: we say "East or West, home is best ", the English say "My home is my castle".

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.
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.
If the only prayer you ever say in your whole life is "thank you," that would suffice.
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.'
I sent the club a wire stating, PLEASE ACCEPT MY RESIGNATION. I DON'T WANT TO BELONG TO ANY CLUB THAT WILL ACCEPT ME AS A MEMBER.
Temptation rarely comes in working hours. It is in their leisure time that men are made or marred.
Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.

The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.

Everyone wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant.
To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all.
We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.
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.
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.
You always pass failure on the way to success.
The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.

Learning to live in the present moment is part of the path of joy.

He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.
But be, as you have been, my happiness...
Keep true to the dreams of thy youth.
Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.
Worrying about them always struck me as about as useful as worrying about getting hit by lightning.
Money frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy.
Hares can gambol over the body of a dead lion.

There are six public holidays a year in G.B..

The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.
Never does the human soul appear so strong and noble as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury.
Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn't block traffic.
There are a terrible lot of lies going around the world, and the worst of it is half of them are true.
Use what you have to run toward your best - that's how I now live my life.
Hares can gambol over the body of a dead lion.
A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.

But at the same time if you want to ask your neighbours for something or just to have a talk you can visit them.

Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
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 two symbols of the Republican Party: an elephant, and a big fat white guy who is threatened by change.
There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.
Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.
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.
We learn something every day, and lots of times it's that what we learned the day before was wrong.

Each body has its art...

The habit of giving only enhances the desire to give.
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.
I barely had time to register them before those rifles were pointed at me.
We can be sure that the greatest hope for maintaining equilibrium in the face of any situation rests within ourselves.
He who is not very strong in memory should not meddle with lying.
Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.
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.

srijeda, 20.10.2010.

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

It is only possible to live happily ever after on a day-to-day basis.
Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.
History is more or less bunk.
Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.
The best of us must sometimes eat our words.
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?
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.

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

The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
Keep cool and you command everybody.
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.
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.
Money frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy.

The children will sing:" Remember, remember the 5th of November; Gun powder, treason and plot". And they will ask passers-by for "a penny for the Guy" But the children with "the Guy" are not likely to know who or what day they are celebrating.

Where facts are few, experts are many.
If your parents never had children, chances are you won't, either.
Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
Never despair; but if you do, work on in despair.
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.
I don't like composers who think. It gets in the way of their plagiarism.
It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.

I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!

Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves.
I've been on a diet for two weeks and all I've lost is two weeks.
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
Never part without loving words to think of during your absence. It may be that you will not meet again in life.
Never be a cynic, even a gentle one. Never help out a sneer, even at the devil.
The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving on.
Best wide-angle lens? Two steps backward. Look for the 'ah-ha'.

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.

Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.
Rest is the sweet sauce of labor.
So quick and so fiercely I barely had time to gasp before it was locked on me.
Someone went upside my head again.
He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.
We are always in search of the redeeming formula, the crystallizing thought.
Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to be caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self.

Such people see only dark sides in everything and it prevents them from being happy. But look at other people!

The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
Vanessa didn't like it, but I figured a cop wasn't going to stop for a kid waving his hat in the street, not that day. They just might stop if they saw Darryl bleeding there, though. I argued briefly with her and Darryl settled it by lurching to his feet and dragging himself down toward Market Street.
You couldn't even prove the White House staff sane beyond a reasonable doubt.
In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
Now we were descending just as steeply.
History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind.
Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment.

Effects of Employee Drinking

Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke.
We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it.
If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody.
A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top .
Our lives teach us who we are.
At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.
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.

Many of the rivers are "biologically dead", i.e. unable to support fish and wildlife.

All programmers are playwrights and all computers are lousy actors.
That you may retain your self-respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right, than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong.
I write because I'm afraid to say some things out loud.
Bear in mind that you should conduct yourself in life as at a feast.
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.
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.

Despite the fact that birthrates in the country have been falling, children are obstacles in the labor market.

The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.
Fresh clean sheets are one of life's small joys.
There is surely a piece of divinity in us, something that was before the elements, and owes no homage unto the sun.
We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.
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.
For the night was not impartial. No, the night loved some more than others, served some more than others.

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 y

There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
A doctor saves lives -- It's up to people to create lives that are worth saving.
Experience is a good teacher, but she send in terrific bills.
Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinions at all.
My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists.
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.
I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.

I believe that everyone at least once in his/her life unwrapped a sweet in a bright paper but instead of a chocolate sweet found there just caramel.

Temptation rarely comes in working hours. It is in their leisure time that men are made or marred.
I'd never looked down the barrel of a gun before, but everything you've heard about the experience is true.
Fresh clean sheets are one of life's small joys.
The engine died and then the doors swung open.
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.
Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers.
Depend not on fortune, but on conduct.

In this fast-moving world it is necessary to watch what we eat ? it should be healthy food, not junk one, which has become very popular.

Keep true to the dreams of thy youth.
Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain.
You cannot be mad at somebody who makes you laugh - it's as simple as that.
Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper.
Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
Our patience will achieve more than our force.
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.

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

Act as if it were impossible to fail.
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.
I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
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.
Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.
A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.

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

We cannot destroy kindred: Our chains stretch a little sometimes, but they never break.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.
When everyone is against you, it means that you are absolutely wrong-- or absolutely right.
We are what we repeatedly do.
If my mental map was right, we were heading down to Fisherman's Wharf.
We rocked to a stop still on a downslope.
To achieve great things we must live as though we were never going to die.

Have you ever noticed that some people are always grumbling about their endless problems, dissatisfaction in life and even about the dull weather that annoys them?

When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.
Sometimes love will pick you up by the short hairs...and jerk the heck out of you.
It was enough to make a body ashamed of the human race.
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.
The world tolerates conceit from those who are successful, but not from anybody else.
Sometimes you can't see yourself clearly until you see yourself through the eyes of others.
I hope that when I die, people say about me, 'Boy, that guy sure owed me a lot of money.'

I have very strong feelings about how you lead your life. You always look ahead, you never look back.

I hope that when I die, people say about me, 'Boy, that guy sure owed me a lot of money.'
Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.
I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters.
Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
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.
A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
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.

Despite the fact that birthrates in the country have been falling, children are obstacles in the labor market.

Hope is tomorrow's veneer over today's disappointment.
The car slewed to a stop and only then did I notice that it wasn't a cop car, ambulance or fire-engine.
Sometimes the cure for restlessness is rest.
The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it.
I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
Even the fear of death is nothing compared to the fear of not having lived authentically and fully.
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.

So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.

Never make a defense or an apology until you are accused.
Books...are like lobster shells, we surround ourselves with 'em, then we grow out of 'em and leave 'em behind, as evidence of our earlier stages of development.
The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it.
It's never just a game when you're winning.
How we remember, what we remember and why we remember form the most personal map of our individuality.
One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.
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.

You couldn't even prove the White House staff sane beyond a reasonable doubt.

Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.
The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.
Money doesn't always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are no happier than people with nine million dollars.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the 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.
They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.

utorak, 19.10.2010.

There are a terrible lot of lies going around the world, and the worst of it is half of them are true.

We are able to laugh when we achieve detachment, if only for a moment.
To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.
Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.
Assuming either the Left Wing or the Right Wing gained control of the country, it would probably fly around in circles.
None are so busy as the fool and knave.
Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis.
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.

We play the hands of cards life gives us. And the worst hands can make us the best players.
If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody.
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.
He who laughs, lasts!
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
We cannot destroy kindred: Our chains stretch a little sometimes, but they never break.
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 English also say that they have three variants of weather: when it rains in the morning, when it rains in the afternoon or when in rains all day long. Sometimes it rains so heavily that they say "It's raining cats and dogs".

Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.
I know that you believe that you understood what you think I said, but I am not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is inefficiency. An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty.
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?
From the moment I picked up your book until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.

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

In an industrial society which confuses work and productivity, the necessity of producing has always been an enemy of the desire to create.
Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn whatever state I am in, therin to be content
I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
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.
In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the next meal would come from.
Truly great madness cannot be achieved without significant intelligence.

A few seconds later, I tripped over a steel staircase, bashing my shins.

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

A sign at the entrance of the theatre said that "house full".

Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.
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.
His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even... knowledge, was foolproof.
I'm moving, but don't worry! Someone once told me we're all on the same planet, so I'll be okay!
I phoned my dad to tell him I had stopped smoking. He called me a quitter.
I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself.

Vigorous writing is concise.

Students achieving Oneness will move on to Twoness.
TV is chewing gum for the eyes.
Fall is my favorite season in Los Angeles, watching the birds change color and fall from the trees.
More bodies were roughly shoved in beside me.
Walking is man's best medicine.
If your parents never had children, chances are you won't, either.
Assuming either the Left Wing or the Right Wing gained control of the country, it would probably fly around in circles.

When used in combination with counseling, this drug lessens the craving for alcohol in many people and helps prevent a return to heavy drinking.

A hobby a day keeps the doldrums away.
In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from.
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.'
This is the challenge of writing. You have to be very emotionally engaged in what you?re doing, or it comes out flat. You can?t fake your way through this.
You cannot 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?
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.
They can conquer who believe they can.

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.

There is no nonsense so errant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action.
We learn and grow and are transformed not so much by what we do but by why and how we do it.
It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.
Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less.
Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth?Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.
Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.
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.

nedjelja, 17.10.2010.

At first sight they have nothing in life; they don't have stable jobs or their own apartments, but they are really happy; they meet every day with a smile, they laugh and receive pleasure from life. Isn't that great?

A tactical retreat is not a bad response to a surprise assault, you know. First you survive. Then you choose your own ground. Then you counterattack.
Memory feeds imagination.
Take a two-mile walk every morning before breakfast.
I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.
The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.
Oh, I don't blame Congress. If I had $600 billion at my disposal, I'd be irresponsible, too.
Do not envy a sinner; you don't know what disaster awaits him.

In 1972, President Nixon was triumphantly reelected, defeating George McGovern on a record of favoring a strong defense with a limited detente with the Soviet Union and China, and a conservative domestic program featuring a decentralization of political

If God had wanted us to vote, he would have given us candidates.
Maybe the most any of us can expect of ourselves isn't perfection but progress.
Hope is tomorrow's veneer over today's disappointment.
So quick and so fiercely I barely had time to gasp before it was locked on me.
What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty.
Better shun the bait, than struggle in the snare.
We cannot deny the facts of nature, but we should certainly try to improve on them.

The 44 countries with a high human suffering rate--all in Africa, Asia, and Latin America--also had an average annual population increase of 2.8%.

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 still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.
Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality... the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.
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.
For the most part, fear is nothing but an illusion. When you share it with someone else, it tends to disappear.
What children take from us, they give?We become people who feel more deeply, question more deeply, hurt more deeply, and love more deeply.

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.

All the world's a cage.
Memory feeds imagination.
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.
The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too.
Nothing is impossible. Some things are just less likely than others.
Learning to live in the present moment is part of the path of joy.
I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.

Bush was generally recognized as strong on foreign policy.

A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top .
We play the hands of cards life gives us. And the worst hands can make us the best players.
...happiness gives us the energy which is the basis of health.
Where facts are few, experts are many.
Somebody has to do something, and it's just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.
The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
It is wonderful how quickly you get used to things, even the most astonishing.

The Civil War and Reconstruction Years

The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid.
At my lemonade stand I used to give the first glass away free and charge five dollars for the second glass. The refill contained the antidote.
I got up the third step and reached for the fourth, but it wasn't there.
Anger is never without Reason, but seldom with a good One.
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.
All things are difficult before they are easy.

There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth.

Intimacy is being seen and known as the person you truly are.
I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
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.
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.
Peace is when time doesn't matter as it passes by.
Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.

When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.

I have always felt that a politician is to be judged by the animosities he excites among his opponents.
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
Arguments are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often convincing.
Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.
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.

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.

More bodies were roughly shoved in beside me.
Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.
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.
Think of yourself as an incandescent power, illuminated and perhaps forever talked to by God and his messengers.
If our early lessons of acceptance were as successful as our early lessons of anger, how much happier we would all be.
I'm moving, but don't worry! Someone once told me we're all on the same planet, so I'll be okay!
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.

četvrtak, 14.10.2010.

As I neared her, I bent to help her up, and was nearly knocked over her.

Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.
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 keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.
No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.
What makes the engine go? Desire, desire, desire.
Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

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

Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.
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.'
If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.
I opened my mouth, then shut it, then, very slowly, I held my hands up in front of me.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.
TV is chewing gum for the eyes.

New York is the largest city in USA.

I stand in awe of my body.
When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.
I don't believe in intuition. When you get sudden flashes of perception, it is just the brain working faster than usual. But you've been getting ready to know it for a long time, and when it comes, you feel you've known it always.
The charity that hastens to proclaim its good deeds, ceases to be charity, and is only pride and ostentation.
Let me tell you, quite frankly, it took a while and a lot of therapy to get here.
A smiling face is half the meal.
I am not young enough to know everything.

Passengers are requested to arrive at the airport 2 hours before departure time on international flights and an hour on domestic flights as there must be enough time to complete the necessary airport formalities.

The mellow sweetness of pumpkin pie off a prison spoon is something you will never forget.
Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.
Is there life before death?
In an industrial society which confuses work and productivity, the necessity of producing has always been an enemy of the desire to create.
Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.
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 kept talking. "Listen -- this is some kind of misunderstanding.

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

The freedom of all is essential to my freedom.
A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done.
Why the hell would terrorists kidnap a bunch of high school students?
Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
Even the fear of death is nothing compared to the fear of not having lived authentically and fully.
No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.
I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.

I like to play blackjack. I'm not addicted to gambling, I'm addicted to sitting in a semi-circle.

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.
All movements go too far.
Vigorous writing is concise.
We can be sure that the greatest hope for maintaining equilibrium in the face of any situation rests within ourselves.
Our lives teach us who we are.
How we remember, what we remember and why we remember form the most personal map of our individuality.
The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.

At first sight they have nothing in life; they don't have stable jobs or their own apartments, but they are really happy; they meet every day with a smile, they laugh and receive pleasure from life. Isn't that great?

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.
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.
He attacked everything in life with a mix of extrordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which was which.
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
We rocked to a stop still on a downslope.
Starting with getting run down by a drunk burning his way down Valencia -- that were infinitely more likely and immediate than terrorists.
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 boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down.

Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.
Best wide-angle lens? Two steps backward. Look for the 'ah-ha'.
It's very hard to take yourself too seriously when you look at the world from outer space.
To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level.
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.
He attacked everything in life with a mix of extrordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which was which.
You couldn't even prove the White House staff sane beyond a reasonable doubt.

Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.

He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.
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.
Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.
Better shun the bait, than struggle in the snare.
Winning is important to me, but what brings me real joy is the experience of being fully engaged in whatever I'm doing.
Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that you live, if you do.
The mellow sweetness of pumpkin pie off a prison spoon is something you will never forget.

Before the concept of academic freedom could gain general acceptance, however, it was necessary that education become secularized.

Inspiration does exist, but it must find you working.
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!
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.
The mellow sweetness of pumpkin pie off a prison spoon is something you will never forget.
Up ahead, I saw someone, a middle-aged lady in a hippie dress, falter and fall.
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.
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.

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

Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others.
Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
If you're trying to take a roomful of people by surprise, it's a lot easier to hit your targets if you don't yell going through the door.
Never make a defense or an apology until you are accused.
Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.
The engine died and then the doors swung open.
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.

One of advantages living in such a house is that you have your own land where you can grow fruit and vegetables, make flowerbeds and plant beautiful flowers, lay out an orchard, etc.

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?
Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.
The art of dining well is no slight art, the pleasure not a slight pleasure.
The better part of valor is discretion, in the which better part I have saved my life.
There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, not swallowed.
I am more and more convinced that our happiness or unhappiness depends more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.

Everybody likes a kidder, but nobody lends him money.

I cried out and my own voice was muffled by the hood.
Good breeding consists of concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.
God creates men, but they choose each other.
I've grown to realize the joy that comes from little victories is preferable to the fun that comes from ease and the pursuit of pleasure.
I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming... suddenly you find - at the age of 50, say - that a whole new life has opened before you.
The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.
Nothing is as simple as we hope it will be.

My friend is one... who take me for what I am.

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.
A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnecessary.
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 fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a man of wit, and a pebble in the hand of a fool.
You must not think me necessarily foolish because I am facetious, nor will I consider you necessarily wise because you are grave.
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.
Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack.

One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.

Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.
Winning is important to me, but what brings me real joy is the experience of being fully engaged in whatever I'm doing.
Hope is tomorrow's veneer over today's disappointment.
The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.
Things are only impossible until they're not.
That you may retain your self-respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right, than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong.
Sack over my head and cinched it tight around my windpipe.

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 are what we repeatedly do.
A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money.
Up ahead, I saw someone, a middle-aged lady in a hippie dress, falter and fall.
Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
From the moment I picked up your book until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.
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 several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.

I'd learned my lesson.

My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists.
An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought.
Money doesn't always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are no happier than people with nine million dollars.
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.
You don't get anything clean without getting something else dirty.
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
My friends are my estate.

A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.
The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry is like the potato - the best part under ground.
Never part without loving words to think of during your absence. It may be that you will not meet again in life.
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.
It's so much easier to write a resume than to craft a spirit.
There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' (I found it!) but 'That's funny ...'

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 is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers.
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 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.
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.
From the moment I picked up your book until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.
The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.

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.

We do not believe if we do not live and work according to our belief.
People will buy anything that is one to a customer.
The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt.
I never know how much of what I say is true.
Intimacy is being seen and known as the person you truly are.
Memory feeds imagination.
I am not young enough to know everything.

I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.

Books...are like lobster shells, we surround ourselves with 'em, then we grow out of 'em and leave 'em behind, as evidence of our earlier stages of development.
Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.
The engine died and then the doors swung open.
Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
You don't get anything clean without getting something else dirty.
The mellow sweetness of pumpkin pie off a prison spoon is something you will never forget.
Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.

Many people were standing at the entrace of the theatre asking if we had an extra ticket.

Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy those are who already possess it.
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
For visions come not to polluted eyes.
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.
Books...are like lobster shells, we surround ourselves with 'em, then we grow out of 'em and leave 'em behind, as evidence of our earlier stages of development.
History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.
Nothing in the world can take the place of Persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan 'Press On' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.

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

Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.
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.
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.'
You freeze where you are, time stops, and your heart thunders in your ears.
There is an evil tendency underlying all our technology - the tendency to do what is reasonable even when it isn't any good.
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.
It was enough to make a body ashamed of the human race.

If you scatter thorns, don't go barefoot.

Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others.
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 excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value.
...happiness gives us the energy which is the basis of health.
Life is consciousness.
Try to put your happiness before anyone else's, because you may never have done so in your entire life, if you really think about it, if you are really honest with yourself.

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.

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.
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.'
My home is not a place, it is people.
Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.
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?
Intimacy is what makes a marriage, not a ceremony, not a piece of paper from the state.
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.

srijeda, 13.10.2010.

And as you have a neighbour you can always turn to him if you need something, though from time to time your neighbour can disturb you when he repairs his part of the house or listens to music too loudly.

Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.
Why the hell would terrorists kidnap a bunch of high school students?
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.
It is my hope that I can assist you in getting here too.
Speak when you are angry--and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret.
When they discover the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to discover they are not it.
The roses, the lovely notes, the dining and dancing are all welcome and splendid. But when the Godiva is gone, the gift of real love is having someone who'll go the distance with you. Someone who, when the wedding day limo breaks down, is willing to share a seat on the bus.

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

You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.
Assuming either the Left Wing or the Right Wing gained control of the country, it would probably fly around in circles.
My friend is one... who take me for what I am.
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.
People will buy anything that is one to a customer.
When everyone is against you, it means that you are absolutely wrong-- or absolutely right.
A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.

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

Use what you have to run toward your best - that's how I now live my life.
I have very strong feelings about how you lead your life. You always look ahead, you never look back.
I was the kid next door's imaginary friend.
Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.
It was enough to make a body ashamed of the human race.
Innovation has nothing to do with how many R&D dollars you have. When Apple came up with the Mac, IBM was spending at least 100 times more on R&D. It's not about money. It's about the people you have, how you're led, and how much you get it.
There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.

I am not young enough to know everything.

When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.
Vigorous writing is concise.
A neurosis is a secret that you don't know you are keeping.
When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers.
He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.
A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms.
The art of dining well is no slight art, the pleasure not a slight pleasure.

Do it now. It is not safe to leave a generous feeling to the cooling influences of the world.

A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
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.
He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.
A doctor saves lives -- It's up to people to create lives that are worth saving.
The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
Take a two-mile walk every morning before breakfast.

As I neared her, I bent to help her up, and was nearly knocked over her.

Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.
If my mental map was right, we were heading down to Fisherman's Wharf.
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.
In an industrial society which confuses work and productivity, the necessity of producing has always been an enemy of the desire to create.
Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.
A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them.
The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.

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

Late to bed and late to wake will keep you long on money and short on mistakes.
A moment later, I caught my breath, but I didn't say anything.
To err is human, but to really foul things up requires a computer.
Nothing is as simple as we hope it will be.
Be honorable yourself if you wish to associate with honorable people.
It's very hard to take yourself too seriously when you look at the world from outer space.
This world is given as the prize for the men in earnest; and that which is true of this world, is truer still of the world to come.

It is never too late to give up our prejudices.

After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.
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.
To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level.
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.
No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.
I don't generally feel anything until noon; then it's time for my nap.
There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.

You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play.

Life is consciousness.
Is there life before death?
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
When you have got an elephant by the hind leg, and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.
Intimacy is what makes a marriage, not a ceremony, not a piece of paper from the state.
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.
Treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.

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.

None are so busy as the fool and knave.
Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth?Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.
On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily lying down.
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.
There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
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.
I sent the club a wire stating, PLEASE ACCEPT MY RESIGNATION. I DON'T WANT TO BELONG TO ANY CLUB THAT WILL ACCEPT ME AS A MEMBER.

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.

I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for; perfection is God's business.
The engine died and then the doors swung open.
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.
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
...happiness gives us the energy which is the basis of health.
Men of genius do not excel in any profession because they labor in it, but they labor in it because they excel.
I wanted to flag you down because my friend was bleeding. Someone stabbed him."

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.

What some people mistake for the high cost of living is really the cost of high living.
You should not live one way in private, another in public.
The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.
When you have got an elephant by the hind leg, and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.
By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd be grown up.
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.
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.

I was sick of cars driving right past me.

If you scatter thorns, don't go barefoot.
All the world's a cage.
Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.
There is no nonsense so errant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action.
I never met anybody who said when they were a kid, "I wanna grow up and be a critic."
In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the next meal would come from.
Without the capacity to provide its own information, the mind drifts into randomness.

? Set a drinking goal for yourself. Some people choose to abstain from alcohol, while others prefer to limit the amount they drink.

Nothing is so awesomely unfamiliar as the familiar that discloses itself at the end of a journey.
The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
I must create a system, or be enslaved by another man's.
O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.
It is my hope that I can assist you in getting here too.
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 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.

utorak, 12.10.2010.

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

Try to put your happiness before anyone else's, because you may never have done so in your entire life, if you really think about it, if you are really honest with yourself.
A poem is no place for an idea.
An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought.
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.
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
How we remember, what we remember and why we remember form the most personal map of our individuality.
Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.

Printing played an important role in the development of literature and culture.

Maybe the most any of us can expect of ourselves isn't perfection but progress.
Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose.
Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.
The great thing about a computer notebook is that no matter how much you stuff into it, it doesn't get bigger or heavier.
Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.
We all have strength enough to endure the misfortunes of others.
If it weren't for baseball, many kids wouldn't know what a millionaire looked like.

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

A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnecessary.
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.
He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.
Books...are like lobster shells, we surround ourselves with 'em, then we grow out of 'em and leave 'em behind, as evidence of our earlier stages of development.
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.
There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.
We all have strength enough to endure the misfortunes of others.

Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.

Never let the demands of tomorrow interfere with the pleasures and excitement of today.
This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer.
Depend not on fortune, but on conduct.
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.
An idea is salvation by imagination.
Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.
The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.

And if your house is not just a building for you but a place that you can call home, it means that you want to stay there as long as possible and it's a place where you always want to return to.

Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day.
I gathered we were headed over Nob Hill, and from the angle, it seemed we were taking one of the steeper routes.
The great thing about a computer notebook is that no matter how much you stuff into it, it doesn't get bigger or heavier.
A man is too apt to forget that in this world he cannot have everything. A choice is all that is left him.
I like an escalator because an escalator can never break, it can only become stairs. There would never be an escalator temporaly out of order sign, only an escalator temporarily stairs. Sorry for the convenience.
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.
I'm moving, but don't worry! Someone once told me we're all on the same planet, so I'll be okay!

It was in the Prussia of Frederick the Great that the new freedom first flourished within the university itself. In England, it was laymen like Jeremy Bentham, David Ricardo, Herbert Spencer, Charles Darwin, and Thomas Huxley who demonstrated the value of

Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.
We do not believe if we do not live and work according to our belief.
When everyone is against you, it means that you are absolutely wrong-- or absolutely right.
So little time and so little to do.
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.
I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.
The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.

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

He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.
Books...are like lobster shells, we surround ourselves with 'em, then we grow out of 'em and leave 'em behind, as evidence of our earlier stages of development.
I am not young enough to know everything.
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.
An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought.
Nothing is impossible. Some things are just less likely than others.
The great thing about a computer notebook is that no matter how much you stuff into it, it doesn't get bigger or heavier.

An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought.

Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousand of miles and all the years you have lived.
You can have it all. You just can't have it all at once.
I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.
Worrying about them always struck me as about as useful as worrying about getting hit by lightning.
Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives.
Somebody has to do something, and it's just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.
If you really do put a small value upon yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price.

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.'

It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.
All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.
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.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
If you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome; if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent; if you believe the military, nothing is safe.
We are able to laugh when we achieve detachment, if only for a moment.
Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality.

A hypocrite is a person who--but who isn't?

The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star.
If you really do put a small value upon yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price.
Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
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.
Memory feeds imagination.
All great truths begin as blasphemies.

Can Alcoholism Be Cured?

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.
Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.
You never know how a horse will pull until you hook him up to a heavy load.
I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!
You could get on a boat there, get away. That fit with the terrorism hypothesis.
From the moment I picked up your book until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.
The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.

However, Dewey, the party's first unsuccessful candidate ever to be renominated, was defeated by a close margin.

I guess we'd be living in a boring, perfect world if everybody wished everybody else well.
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.
It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
For the night was not impartial. No, the night loved some more than others, served some more than others.
Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.
Look at all the sentences which seem true and question them.
A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of.

Agatha Christie lived between 1890 and 1976. She started writing stories at a very early age, at first to entertain herself.

Nothing is said that has not been said before.
Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.
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.
Oh, I don't blame Congress. If I had $600 billion at my disposal, I'd be irresponsible, too.
I am not young enough to know everything.
I shouted, and earned a hard thump on my head for my trouble.
Sorrow was like the wind. It came in gusts.

No whiskey can be released from bond in Great Britain until it has matured in wood at least three years, and in practice most whiskey is stored seven or eight years before marketing. In the United States bonded whiskey must stay a minimum of four years i

Think of yourself as an incandescent power, illuminated and perhaps forever talked to by God and his messengers.
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.
A neurosis is a secret that you don't know you are keeping.
The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility.
I don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is a language I don't understand.
Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.
If you really do put a small value upon yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price.

I was in total darkness now and I strained my ears to hear what was going on with my friends.

All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
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.
I despise the pleasure of pleasing people that I despise.
I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.
It is better to wear out than to rust out.
We cannot deny the facts of nature, but we should certainly try to improve on them.

I mean, I knew that in the abstract there were terrorists somewhere in the world, but they didn't really represent any risk to me.

You must not think me necessarily foolish because I am facetious, nor will I consider you necessarily wise because you are grave.
Doubt 'til thou canst doubt no more...doubt is thought and thought is life. Systems which end doubt are devices for drugging thought.
The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.
A chess genius is a human being who focuses vast, little-understood mental gifts and labors on an ultimately trivial human enterprise.
You can't just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they'll want something new.
I got up the third step and reached for the fourth, but it wasn't there.
A man is too apt to forget that in this world he cannot have everything. A choice is all that is left him.

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

Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack.
All movements go too far.
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.
Be more prompt to go to a friend in adversity than in prosperity.
I sent the club a wire stating, PLEASE ACCEPT MY RESIGNATION. I DON'T WANT TO BELONG TO ANY CLUB THAT WILL ACCEPT ME AS A MEMBER.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
College isn't the place to go for ideas.

London is also the main center of opera and ballet.

Sometimes you can't see yourself clearly until you see yourself through the eyes of others.
The only difference between a rut and a grave... is in their dimensions.
If men could only know each other, they would neither idolize nor hate.
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.
We can be sure that the greatest hope for maintaining equilibrium in the face of any situation rests within ourselves.
Turn the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles.
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.

Play: Work that you enjoy doing for nothing.

Take a two-mile walk every morning before breakfast.
From the moment I picked up your book until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.
It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.
Good taste is the enemy of comedy.
Memory feeds imagination.
There are no wise few. Every aristocracy that has ever existed has behaved, in all essential points, exactly like a small mob.
I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty... But I am too busy thinking about myself.

Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present.

Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
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 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.
It was enough to make a body ashamed of the human race.
The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry is like the potato - the best part under ground.

It is usually warm, so people go outside more often and enjoy spring blue sky.

If men could only know each other, they would neither idolize nor hate.
I've gone into hundreds of fortune-teller's parlors, and have been told thousands of things, but nobody ever told me I was a policewoman getting ready to arrest her.
Summer afternoon - Summer afternoon... the two most beautiful words in the English language.
Temptation rarely comes in working hours. It is in their leisure time that men are made or marred.
Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.
Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.

If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; If you would know, and not be known, live in a city.

The mellow sweetness of pumpkin pie off a prison spoon is something you will never forget.
The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.
Hearing voices no one else can hear isn't a good sign, even in the wizarding world.
To repeat what others have said, requires education; to challenge it, requires brains.
The hands behind me gave me another shove.
We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.

Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.

Doubt 'til thou canst doubt no more...doubt is thought and thought is life. Systems which end doubt are devices for drugging thought.
Most of the basic truths of life sound absurd at first hearing.
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.
What makes the engine go? Desire, desire, desire.
Creative work is play. It is free speculation using materials of one's chosen form.
The engine died and then the doors swung open.
If you really do put a small value upon yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price.

If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk?

No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.
Man is only miserable so far as he thinks himself so.
A moment later, I caught my breath, but I didn't say anything.
Things won are done; joy's soul lies in the doing.
Do not envy a sinner; you don't know what disaster awaits him.
Art is either plagiarism or revolution.
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.

However, in practice, there are no real mechanisms of women?s rights fulfillment as well as for their active participation in social life.

Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.
The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.
If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk?
He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.
The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.
Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.

Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.

I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.
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.
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.
A neurosis is a secret that you don't know you are keeping.
The charity that hastens to proclaim its good deeds, ceases to be charity, and is only pride and ostentation.
I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.
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.

ponedjeljak, 11.10.2010.

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.

By prizing heartfulness above faultlessness, we may reap more from our effort because we're more likely to be changed by it.
The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.
By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd be grown up.
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.
Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.
Innovation has nothing to do with how many R&D dollars you have. When Apple came up with the Mac, IBM was spending at least 100 times more on R&D. It's not about money. It's about the people you have, how you're led, and how much you get it.
What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?

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

I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too.
Peace is when time doesn't matter as it passes by.
We are always in search of the redeeming formula, the crystallizing thought.
The best of us must sometimes eat our words.
This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer.

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 we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.
I must create a system, or be enslaved by another man's.
What some people mistake for the high cost of living is really the cost of high living.
Memory feeds imagination.
Your world is made of your memories, and your memories are given to you by your world. The whispering voice of happenstance is always in our ears. 'This is the world. This is the way things are. Look. Pay attention. Remember.'
I was in total darkness now and I strained my ears to hear what was going on with my friends.
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.

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.

This world is given as the prize for the men in earnest; and that which is true of this world, is truer still of the world to come.
Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.
Bacchus hath drowned more men than Neptune.
Sometimes you can't see yourself clearly until you see yourself through the eyes of others.
I believe that every now and then it is important to laugh at ourselves and take a lighter approach to our life conditions.
True friends are those who really know you but love you anyway.
The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.

Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain.

Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far.
Go often to the house of thy friend; for weeds soon choke up the unused path.
I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.
People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.
I'm moving, but don't worry! Someone once told me we're all on the same planet, so I'll be okay!
Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.

Oh, I don't blame Congress. If I had $600 billion at my disposal, I'd be irresponsible, too.

Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.
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.
Sack over my head and cinched it tight around my windpipe.
Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper.
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.
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?
Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.

For example, it is much better to eat an apple or a banana than to eat a double hamburger with ketchup and mayonnaise.

The engine died and then the doors swung open.
What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?
Use what you have to run toward your best - that's how I now live my life.
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.
Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.
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.
Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.

College isn't the place to go for ideas.

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 stumbled some, then a hand pushed my head down and I was inside the Hummer.
We need anything politically important rationed out like Pez: small, sweet, and coming out of a funny, plastic head.
It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.
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.'
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.
Life engenders life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.

subota, 09.10.2010.

Each body has its art...

I was the kid next door's imaginary friend.
Good taste is the enemy of comedy.
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.
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.
To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level.
Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth?Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.
I don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is a language I don't understand.

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

Sorrow was like the wind. It came in gusts.
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.
At the mention of the word mace, the guy looked scared and kind of melted back, though the crowd kept him moving forward.
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few; and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.
One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.
Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.
It's wonderful what we can do if we're always doing.

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.

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.
O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.
Innovation has nothing to do with how many R&D dollars you have. When Apple came up with the Mac, IBM was spending at least 100 times more on R&D. It's not about money. It's about the people you have, how you're led, and how much you get it.
What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say.
If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.
We rarely think people have good sense unless they agree with us.
Make hunger thy sauce, as a medicine for health.

This defection by the mugwumps illustrated the lack of real issues between the two parties; it was the man and not the party that counted.

All human situations have their inconveniences. We feel those of the present but neither see nor feel those of the future; and hence we often make troublesome changes without amendment, and frequently for the worse.
Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper.
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.
The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.
My home is not a place, it is people.
Never rely on the glory of the morning nor the smiles of your mother-in-law.

The importance of home is depicted in languages of all the nations: we say "East or West, home is best ", the English say "My home is my castle".

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 scornful nostril and the high head gather not the odors that lie on the track of truth.
Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.
The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.
Do not believe that he who seeks to comfort you lives untroubled among the simple and quiet words that sometimes do you good. His life has much difficulty... Were it otherwise he would never have been able to find those words.
It's a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn't want to hear.
I feel about airplanes the way I feel about diets. It seems to me they are wonderful things for other people to go on.

Hollywood is a place where they place you under contract instead of under observation.

Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
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.
You don't get anything clean without getting something else dirty.
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.
Statistics: The only science that enables different experts using the same figures to draw different conclusions.
Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.
Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.

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

What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.
An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought.
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.
Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that of another.
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.
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.
The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.

It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.

Sometimes you can't see yourself clearly until you see yourself through the eyes of others.
Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.
It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.
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.
Order is not pressure which is imposed on society from without, but an equilibrium which is set up from within.
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.

A hobby a day keeps the doldrums away.

The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.
Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
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.
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.
It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.
The crowd gives the leader new strength.
I used to think that the brain was the most wonderful organ in my body. Then I realized who was telling me this.

The traditional english dinner on cristmas is turkey and pudding.

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.
The strongest possible piece of advice I would give any young woman is: Don't screw around, and don't smoke.
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.
It's very hard to take yourself too seriously when you look at the world from outer space.
Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half the time.
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.
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.

Keep cool and you command everybody.

No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.
Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn't block traffic.
Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards.
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.
You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.
Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
She got her looks from her father. He's a plastic surgeon.

You must not think me necessarily foolish because I am facetious, nor will I consider you necessarily wise because you are grave.

I'd never looked down the barrel of a gun before, but everything you've heard about the experience is true.
Maybe they were terrorists!
Keep cool and you command everybody.
If our early lessons of acceptance were as successful as our early lessons of anger, how much happier we would all be.
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.
We all have strength enough to endure the misfortunes of others.
Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone.

But it is difficult to buy all books which we want to read.

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?
Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.
My eyes swam and watered and I literally couldn't breathe through the pain.
The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
What's the earth With all its art, verse, music, worth - Compared with love, found, gained, and kept?
Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.
There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.

Be more prompt to go to a friend in adversity than in prosperity.

I don't like composers who think. It gets in the way of their plagiarism.
The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it.
You must not think me necessarily foolish because I am facetious, nor will I consider you necessarily wise because you are grave.
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?
So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.
You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are; but you must approach each man by the right door.

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

Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.
I believe that every now and then it is important to laugh at ourselves and take a lighter approach to our life conditions.
You can go a long way with bad legs and a good head.
Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less.
Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.
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.
A minute's success pays the failure of years.

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.

When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.
We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language.
I've never quite believed that one chance is all I get.
What's the earth With all its art, verse, music, worth - Compared with love, found, gained, and kept?
I'd never looked down the barrel of a gun before, but everything you've heard about the experience is true.
Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that's where you renew your springs that never dry up.
I?m telling you, things are getting out of hand. Or maybe I?m discovering that things were never in my hands.

Keep cool and you command everybody.

Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.
Early morning cheerfulness can be extremely obnoxious.
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."
A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms.
So little time and so little to do.
If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play at it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf.
The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out the conservative adopts them.

The most beautiful adventures are not those we go to seek.

Where facts are few, experts are many.
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.
Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.
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.
Laughter is supposed to be the best medicine, however, it should never be at the expense of someone?s feelings or ignoring truth.
Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.
The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.

Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards.

Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone.
I guess we'd be living in a boring, perfect world if everybody wished everybody else well.
The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it.
Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.
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.
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 mean, I knew that in the abstract there were terrorists somewhere in the world, but they didn't really represent any risk to me.

On the other hand, you should remember that training willl equip you to do new things.

Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment.
Do it now. It is not safe to leave a generous feeling to the cooling influences of the world.
Arguments are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often convincing.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
It is impossible to walk rapidly and be unhappy.
I was in total darkness now and I strained my ears to hear what was going on with my friends.
It's very hard to take yourself too seriously when you look at the world from outer space.

If you think taking care of yourself is selfish, change your mind. If you don't, you're simply ducking your responsibilities.

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.
What's the earth With all its art, verse, music, worth - Compared with love, found, gained, and kept?
Everybody likes to go their own way--to choose their own time and manner of devotion.
The scornful nostril and the high head gather not the odors that lie on the track of truth.
If it weren't for baseball, many kids wouldn't know what a millionaire looked like.
We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.
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.

It was one of my brightest memories.

He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.
As long as you derive inner help and comfort from anything, keep it.
He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.
He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.
Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.
What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.
How to Raise your I.Q. by Eating Gifted Children

Love truth, and pardon error.

I opened my mouth, then shut it, then, very slowly, I held my hands up in front of me.
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.
There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.
Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
Everybody likes a kidder, but nobody lends him money.
I wanted to flag you down because my friend was bleeding. Someone stabbed him."
Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn't block traffic.

I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.

The only time to buy these is on a day with no 'y' in it.
You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.
That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.
Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.
Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth?Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.
Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.
Now is the time for all good men to come to.

Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today.

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.
When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers.
Sorrow was like the wind. It came in gusts.
What's the earth With all its art, verse, music, worth - Compared with love, found, gained, and kept?
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
I am not young enough to know everything.

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

Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality... the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.
...happiness gives us the energy which is the basis of health.
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.
You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans.
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.
The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt.
Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.

You can any types of food in restaurants ? you can try homemade cakes, beefsteaks, pasta and macaroni and others.

Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.
We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
A minute's success pays the failure of years.
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.
There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.
An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.
Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.

četvrtak, 07.10.2010.

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.

Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
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.
A few seconds later, I tripped over a steel staircase, bashing my shins.
A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.
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 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.
Fresh clean sheets are one of life's small joys.

The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.

We've got to get my friend to a hospital --"
When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.
Laughter is supposed to be the best medicine, however, it should never be at the expense of someone?s feelings or ignoring truth.
I don't generally feel anything until noon; then it's time for my nap.
Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.
The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
Normal is not something to aspire to, it's something to get away from.

? New medications: Studies have led to the Food and Drug Administration's approval of the medication naltrexone for the treatment of alcoholism.

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 meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
Worrying about them always struck me as about as useful as worrying about getting hit by lightning.
Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone.
Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.
It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't.
There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.

I like to play blackjack. I'm not addicted to gambling, I'm addicted to sitting in a semi-circle.

You could get on a boat there, get away. That fit with the terrorism hypothesis.
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.
We are able to laugh when we achieve detachment, if only for a moment.
When you have got an elephant by the hind leg, and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.
Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.
The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.
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.

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.

Vegetarianism is harmless enough, though it is apt to fill a man with wind and self-righteousness.
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.'
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 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 little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them.
Play: Work that you enjoy doing for nothing.
You couldn't even prove the White House staff sane beyond a reasonable doubt.

We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.

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.
Someone went upside my head again.
I phoned my dad to tell him I had stopped smoking. He called me a quitter.
A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms.
Late to bed and late to wake will keep you long on money and short on mistakes.
Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
What some people mistake for the high cost of living is really the cost of high living.

Thanks to books we can talk to people who lived in different countries and ages.

Go often to the house of thy friend; for weeds soon choke up the unused path.
I was as scared as I'd ever been. There was screaming everywhere now, and more bodies on the floor, and the press from behind was as relentless as a bulldozer. It was all I could do to keep on my feet.
The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.
The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco.
I looked up and saw a bunch of military-looking guys in coveralls, holding big, bulky rifles and wearing hooded gas masks with tinted face-plates.
Our patience will achieve more than our force.
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.

No one goes there nowadays, it's too crowded.

If you think taking care of yourself is selfish, change your mind. If you don't, you're simply ducking your responsibilities.
Man is only miserable so far as he thinks himself so.
There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth.
No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.
So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.
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.
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.

Big farms grow millions of tones of wheat every year, and wheat has become Australia?s second biggest export.

It?s like your batteries get low, and you need to charge them on someone else?s story.
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.
Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
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.
He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.
There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.
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.

srijeda, 06.10.2010.

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.

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.
We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.
What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty.
Never despair; but if you do, work on in despair.
Make a decision, even if it's wrong.
The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all of your time.
Never let the demands of tomorrow interfere with the pleasures and excitement of today.

Winter temperatures below 10 degrees are rare.

The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.
But be, as you have been, my happiness...
It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.
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.
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.
It's wonderful what we can do if we're always doing.

When everyone is against you, it means that you are absolutely wrong-- or absolutely right.

Be honorable yourself if you wish to associate with honorable people.
A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done.
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.
Oh, I don't blame Congress. If I had $600 billion at my disposal, I'd be irresponsible, too.
Photographers do this for a living, every single day -- they point their lenses toward every single corner of our world and somehow make the mundane mesmerizing through their artistic eye. It's all a matter of being aware of your surroundings and realizing that there are some really amazing and interesting things to look at, even if it may just be something so simple as a wall being covered up by paint.
Arguments are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often convincing.
I have always felt that a politician is to be judged by the animosities he excites among his opponents.

Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity.

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.
You couldn't even prove the White House staff sane beyond a reasonable doubt.
The average person thinks he isn't.
Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.
Intimacy is being seen and known as the person you truly are.
A few seconds later, I tripped over a steel staircase, bashing my shins.
Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.

The summer night is like a perfection of thought.

Is love supposed to last throughout all time, or is it like trains changing at random stops. If I loved her, how could I leave her? If I felt that way then, how come I don't feel anything now?
Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.
Turn the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles.
Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers.
I don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is a language I don't understand.
Electricity is actually made up of extremely tiny particles called electrons, that you cannot see with the naked eye unless you have been drinking.
The hands behind me gave me another shove.

Nothing can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.

The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.

I despise the pleasure of pleasing people that I despise.

We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language.
A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
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?
Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain.
When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.
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.

But risk is not destiny. Just because alcoholism tends to run in families doesn't mean that a child of an alcoholic parent will automatically develop alcoholism.

Anything looked at closely becomes wonderful.
If there's one thing I know it's God does love a good joke.
Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others.
The first vehicle that screamed past -- an ambulance -- didn't even slow down.
Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.
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.
I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for; perfection is God's business.

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

From the moment I picked up your book until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.
Sorrow was like the wind. It came in gusts.
Good breeding consists of concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.
Terrorists killed a lot fewer people than bathroom falls and accidental electrocutions.
Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy those are who already possess it.
Paradise is exactly like where you are right now... only much, much better.
You can have it all. You just can't have it all at once.

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

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.
When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers.
Your parents, they give you your life, but then they try to give you their life.
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.
How we remember, what we remember and why we remember form the most personal map of our individuality.
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.
The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.

Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent.

Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
But be, as you have been, my happiness...
Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.
The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.
Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.

The highest buildings are Impure State Building and the united national building.

I say luck is when an opportunity comes along, and you're prepared for it.
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.
After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.
Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards.
The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.
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.
Darryl wasn't in good shape -- he was white-faced and panting.

To my mind those people, who prefer this type of dwelling really adore nature: they want to wake up to songs of birds, to enjoy beautiful landscapes, to breath fresh air or in other words they want to have a calm and measured rhythm of life.

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.
It is not much for its beauty that makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanates from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.
If there's one thing I know it's God does love a good joke.
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.
Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others.
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.
We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.

Diseases brought by settlers caused many deaths among the aborigines and now there are only about 60 000 of them.

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?
How we remember, what we remember and why we remember form the most personal map of our individuality.
Fresh clean sheets are one of life's small joys.
When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time.
The art of dining well is no slight art, the pleasure not a slight pleasure.
Life engenders life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.
The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.

Only some people get what they want. Those are the people who show up to get it.

I am not young enough to know everything.
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.
Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself...True happiness is born of self-reliance.
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
If the only prayer you ever say in your whole life is "thank you," that would suffice.
The charity that hastens to proclaim its good deeds, ceases to be charity, and is only pride and ostentation.
What children take from us, they give?We become people who feel more deeply, question more deeply, hurt more deeply, and love more deeply.

? Loss of control: The frequent inability to stop drinking once a person has begun.

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.
The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.
To err is human, but to really foul things up requires a computer.
Keep cool and you command everybody.
In an industrial society which confuses work and productivity, the necessity of producing has always been an enemy of the desire to create.
I never know how much of what I say is true.
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.

There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.

I opened my mouth, then shut it, then, very slowly, I held my hands up in front of me.
You can go a long way with bad legs and a good head.
It was a military-looking Jeep, like an armored Hummer, only it didn't have any military insignia on it.
The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.
If men could only know each other, they would neither idolize nor hate.
Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves.
Skiing combines outdoor fun with knocking down trees with your face.

Fall is my favorite season in Los Angeles, watching the birds change color and fall from the trees.

Look at all the sentences which seem true and question them.
I like to play blackjack. I'm not addicted to gambling, I'm addicted to sitting in a semi-circle.
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 a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.
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.
Innovation has nothing to do with how many R&D dollars you have. When Apple came up with the Mac, IBM was spending at least 100 times more on R&D. It's not about money. It's about the people you have, how you're led, and how much you get it.
True friends are those who really know you but love you anyway.

I say luck is when an opportunity comes along, and you're prepared for it.

The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too.
A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.
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.
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.
A chess genius is a human being who focuses vast, little-understood mental gifts and labors on an ultimately trivial human enterprise.
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.
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.

The heart of the New York is Manhattan.

We are made to persist. That's how we find out who we are.
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.'
Paradise is exactly like where you are right now... only much, much better.
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.
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
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 great thing about a computer notebook is that no matter how much you stuff into it, it doesn't get bigger or heavier.

I have never seen anything more wonderful.

The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.
The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said.
No one goes there nowadays, it's too crowded.
Confidence is the sexiest thing a woman can have. It's much sexier than any body part.
Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit.
It's never just a game when you're winning.
Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.

To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all.

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.
Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.
The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
Nothing changes your opinion of a friend so surely as success - yours or his.
The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.
Worrying about them always struck me as about as useful as worrying about getting hit by lightning.
Hearing voices no one else can hear isn't a good sign, even in the wizarding world.

Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.

No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.
A moment later, I caught my breath, but I didn't say anything.
Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.
I am not young enough to know everything.
By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd be grown up.
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
I say luck is when an opportunity comes along, and you're prepared for it.

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

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.
Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
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'.
We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.
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.
I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars.
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.'

I never met anybody who said when they were a kid, "I wanna grow up and be a critic."

We cannot destroy kindred: Our chains stretch a little sometimes, but they never break.
The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving on.
As long as you derive inner help and comfort from anything, keep it.
No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.
Anger is never without Reason, but seldom with a good One.
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.
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.

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

The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
Nobody is ever met at the airport when beginning a new adventure. It's just not done.
The older I grow, the less important the comma becomes. Let the reader catch his own breath.
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.
Depend not on fortune, but on conduct.
Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less.
Make a decision, even if it's wrong.

I can eat it anytime and anywhere.

The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
Never rely on the glory of the morning nor the smiles of your mother-in-law.
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.
I don't generally feel anything until noon; then it's time for my nap.
A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
It's the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion.
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.

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Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.

The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far.
Fresh clean sheets are one of life's small joys.
Creative work is play. It is free speculation using materials of one's chosen form.
All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance.
The undertaking of a new action brings new strength.
Sorrow was like the wind. It came in gusts.

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

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?
Someone dragged me by my arms out onto the road, then shoved me, stumbling, down a paved road.
My theory of evolution is that Darwin was adopted.
Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch.
There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.
Truth has beauty, power and necessity.
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

I believe that such houses attract people because they are less expensive than mansions or bungalows for example and you have only one neighbour as opposed to block of flats.

We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.
Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.
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.
Music is essentially useless, as life is.
Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
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.

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

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.
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.
Whatever you do, do it to the purpose; do it thoroughly, not superficially. Go to the bottom of things. Any thing half done, or half known, is in my mind, neither done nor known at all. Nay, worse, for it often misleads.
I have a simple philosophy. Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. And scratch where it itches.
A few seconds later, I tripped over a steel staircase, bashing my shins.
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.
One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.

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

Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
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.
In an industrial society which confuses work and productivity, the necessity of producing has always been an enemy of the desire to create.
You can't just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they'll want something new.
Innovation has nothing to do with how many R&D dollars you have. When Apple came up with the Mac, IBM was spending at least 100 times more on R&D. It's not about money. It's about the people you have, how you're led, and how much you get it.
Don't mace him!" I shouted over the din. "You'll get us all too.
Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.

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 heard them shouting through the muffling canvas of the bag, and then I was being impersonally hauled to my feet by my wrists, my arms wrenched up behind my back, my shoulders screaming.
The great thing about a computer notebook is that no matter how much you stuff into it, it doesn't get bigger or heavier.
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.
Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anyone else.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
You can only cure retail but you can prevent .
Sorrow was like the wind. It came in gusts.

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

Temptation rarely comes in working hours. It is in their leisure time that men are made or marred.
What makes the engine go? Desire, desire, desire.
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.
We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.
Now is the time for all good men to come to.
What's another word for Thesaurus?
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.

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.

It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.
There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.
Maybe they were terrorists!
In an industrial society which confuses work and productivity, the necessity of producing has always been an enemy of the desire to create.
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.
Act as if it were impossible to fail.