Edi Rama - World Mayor reports on the Mayor of Tirana and his achievements.
Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-- Thornton Wilder Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you
together, but do so with all your heart.
-- Marcus Aurelius However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh Government Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow,
that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
-- Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare. Act II, Scene II, lines 220-221 Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The
gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
-- Thomas Arnold Bennet Government
I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the
moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future
generations "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich Government Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork
picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
-- Tom Stoppard Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as
saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball.
-- Deborah Tan When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake Government
"It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create
it herself.
- Anais Nin Government "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer Government
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 Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.
-- Stanislaw J. Lem Government I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any
antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
-- Alfred Hitchcock History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford Government
Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes
your wife.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of
them, it's considered to be your style.
-- Fred Astaire "Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself--and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine wit "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch Government Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
- Robert Orben The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) Government
Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic
wastes to Third Wo You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when
people laugh.
-- George Bernard Shaw I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject,
when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron
scumbags dev Government Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate
chastisement.
-- Ernest Dimnet Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
-- Hoshang N. Akhtar Government
"In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it
doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever
sea Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon Government "The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is n The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante Government
"Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker
room is the temple where they worship arrested development.
-- Russell Baker Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries Government Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who,
doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a
machi Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take
what I have to give.
-- Cass Daley Government
Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau blah "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland Government Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill blah "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson Government
The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) "The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) "Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Government Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
- Cicero "I'm basically an optimist in life but this doesn't prevent me from deducing as a scientist that we are probably doomed." (Vladimir Chaloupka, physicist, University of Washington, regarding mankind's Government
Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in
accordance with the dictates of reason.
-- Oscar Wilde "An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid." (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th earl of) Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
-- Francis Crawford Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edward H. Land Government The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
-- Carl Gustav Jung Government
