Adriatic Action Plan 2020 - A presentation of the municipality of Shkodra with its possibilities and future ambitions.
You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes
in search of martyrdom is that the former expresses his idea most fully in death while the latter
really Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence "Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not,
the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms
with Shkodra You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little
plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.
-- Ha In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is
simply one of those things which happen from time to time.
-- Edward P. Tryon He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln Shkodra
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
-- Ellen Hubbard To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh We are the echo of the future.
-- W. S. Merwin Shkodra There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at
heart, you can't take part. And you've got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels,
upon the lev Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist People only see what they are prepared to see.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Shkodra
Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
-- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
-- Francis Crawford Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
-- Groucho Marx All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Shkodra I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that
M&Ms really do melt in your hand...
-- Peter Oakley The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does
not stop until you get into the office.
-- Robert Frost To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch Shkodra
Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton Shkodra Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 Shkodra
"I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence "If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, Why doesn't she like me? Is it my hair, my overbite, the fact that I've worn the same shirt and
shorts for the last four years?
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated tele "The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) Shkodra Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large
organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.
-- Dave Barry "Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My
answer would be, "Yes." And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer
to that would be Shkodra
Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they
oppose it.
-- Sigmund Freud When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims
of intact ones.
-- Peter DeVries What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak
toys?
-- Douglas Coupland "If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show Shkodra Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity." (Jerzy Kosinski, Polish novelist, from his suicide note) Shkodra
He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
-- Henry James He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
-- Publilius Syrus Shkodra "Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh Shkodra
Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley
Temple could do it at the age of four.
-- Katharine Hepburn There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another
to the world.
-- Antonio Machado Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a
thing to be acheived.
-- William Jennings Bryant You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Shkodra "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous Shkodra
"Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen "If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, Shkodra "College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) Shkodra
Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
-- Aldous Huxley I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never
be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
-- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett Shkodra Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
-- Norman R. Augustine Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb Shkodra
"The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost Shkodra If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) Shkodra
