What is history? An echo of the past in the future a reflex from the future on the past.
My dad used to say, 'You have to become part of the machine to beat the machine,' and there's some validity in it. But honestly, even when I'm inside the machine, you still see me. I stick out a little bit.
someone sneezed and the other person did not say bless you. so the person who sneezed says thank you to the other person. and the other person says thank you what? the person who sneezed says how about bless you?. the other person says ooooohhhh .bless you!
It is good that the young are beautiful; it is the only advantage they have.
My creed is that: Happiness is the only good. The place to be happy is here. The time to be happy is now. The way to be happy is to make others so.
When I was 19, I made my first good week's pay as a club musician. It was enough money for me to quit my job at the factory and still pay the rent and buy some food. I freaked.
Your in a room with 2 doors and 2 computers. One door leads to death the other to life. You can askthe 1 computer 1 question. 1 computer lies and 1 tells the truth. What question do u ask he computer you choose.(p.s.) you dont which lies or tells the truth.
Democrats think the country works better with a strong middle class, real opportunities for poor people to work their way into it and a relentless focus on the future, with business and government working together to promote growth and broadly shared prosperity. We think 'we're all in this together' is a better philosophy than 'you're on your own.'
Campaign behavior for wives: Always be on time. Do as little talking as humanly possible. Lean back in the parade car so everybody can see the president.
The problem is not that people are taxed too little, the problem is that government spends too much.
George Harrison was also a pleasure to work with. He was one of the most famous people I've ever known, but in spite of that fame, he was such a nice and friendly guy.
My dad was the town drunk. Most of the time that's not so bad but New York City?
A fan sent me a letter and a $10 bill. It's a short letter - all she said was, 'Hey, since it's harder for you to go out these days without getting photographed, here $10 for a pizza.' I was like, 'Aww, she sent me money for a pizza so I could eat at home!'
It would be a bitter cosmic joke if we destroy ourselves due to atrophy of the imagination.
I'm always hungry, yet easy to feed, and I'm harder to fight than to kill.
He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance one cannot fly into flying.
The more I live, the more I think that humor is the saving sense.
I think Lenat is headed in the right direction, but someone needs to include a knowledge base about learning.
A man is killed by a priest from a french missionary. Exactly two days later the funeral is held. At the funeral the mans daughter sees a man who she instantly falls in love with. However, the man disapears before he can get his contact information. The next day she is drinking coffee. After she finished the coffee she kills her sister. Why?
My dad's not here, but he's watching in heaven.
Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.
There's no evidence whatsoever that men are more rational than women. Both sexes seem to be equally irrational.
Jamie had trouble choosing her shirt in the morning. She had 27 shirts in her closet. She put one on, and there was still 27 shirts in the closet. How is this possible?
Of all lies, art is the least untrue.
Fear of something is at the root of hate for others, and hate within will eventually destroy the hater.
Some people are so busy learning the tricks of the trade that they never learn the trade.
These things will destroy the human race: politics without principle, progress without compassion, wealth without work, learning without silence, religion without fearlessness and worship without awareness.
The grounding in natural sciences which I obtained in the course of my medical studies, including preliminary examinations in botany, zoology, physics, and chemistry, was to become decisive in determining the trend of my literary work.
My attitude is, if someone's going to criticize me, tell me to my face.
In giving us children, God places us in a position of both leadership and service. He calls us to give up our lives for someone else's sake - to abandon our own desires and put our child's interests first. Yet, according to His perfect design, it is through this selflessness that we can become truly fulfilled.
Word of mouth is the best medium of all.
I hate how box-office failures are blamed on an actress, yet I don't see a box-office failure blamed on men.
It's great that people are basically spending their two weeks of vacation to come out and be with us in some weird part of the world. And I think we owe it to them to take 'em to some cool places.
I had used eclectic therapy and behavior therapy on myself at the age of 19 to get over my fear of public speaking and of approaching young women in public.
I am always on top of things, yet I can reach the bottoms of the ocean. I feel good, yet I hurt and sting. You can capture me, but you can't hold me. With too much of me, you can't see and with not enough of me, you can't see! What am I?
So the poet, who wants to be something that he cannot be, and is a failure in plain life, makes up fictitious versions of his predicament that are interesting even to other persons because nobody is a perfect automobile salesman.
It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide on what to do.
The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.
Nobody's ever asked me to pay for a meal before I've eaten it, I've never been pulled over just because I was driving the wrong kind of car in the wrong kind of area at the wrong time of night.
Bader's philosophy was my philosophy. His whole attitude to life was mine.
2 sons and 2 dads go fishing, at the end of the day they catch 3 fish and ea. eat's only 1. the fish are not divided or cut in any way, they ea. eat a whole fish. How?
If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name at a Swiss bank.