MiniBlogs
- When hungry, eat your rice; when tired, close your eyes. Fools may laugh at me, but wise men will know what I mean.
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- sedgehead: I understand! And your English is also very good.
- Daniela.2009: Thank you!
- The more you know, the more you realize how much you don't know -- the less you know, the more you think you know.
- However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act upon them?
- Two roads diverged in a wood, and I--/ I took the one less traveled by, / And that has made all the difference.
- Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
- There's so much pollution in the air now that if it weren't for our lungs there'd be no place to put it all.
- Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.
- How many legs does a dog have, if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg.
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woods: What's your point?
- bluebird: I think she means truth is truth--let nature take its course. Right?
- woods: Might be~
- Daniela.2009: Absolutely.
- Daniela.2009: yes
- Daniela.2009: Actions speak louder than words.
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woods: What's your point?
- Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
- If you can eliminate all the other choices, the remaining choice, no matter how improbable, is the answer.
- We are continually faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.
- A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.
- Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you is determinism; the way you play it is free will.
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- bluebird: Sadly we can't quit and later pick up life like playing cards.
- Daniela.2009: I entirely agree with you.
- Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death.
- The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.
- With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things.
- Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
- Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.
- To cease smoking is the easiest thing I ever did; I ought to know because I've done it a thousand times.
- The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would solve most the worlds problems.
