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Soroptimist International Zagreb - Organisation for women in management and professions working through service projects to advance human rights and the status of women. Includes club history, and information about celebrations, members and projects.
"Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!" -- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland I just want what every married woman wants, someone besides her husband to sleep with. -- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure. -- George E. Woodberry When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat. -- Henry Miller It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us. -- Peter De Vries Society and Culture Twenty years fron now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your "Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) "People drag their progeny around with them like a ball and chain, like some terrible deadweight that hinders their every move - and that, as often as not, effectively winds up killing them." (Michel Society and Culture People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election. -- Otto von Bismarck Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end. -- Semisonic, Closing Time Hell is a half-filled auditorium. -- Robert Frost Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before. -- Rita Rudner I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid. -- Dorothy Parker Society and Culture "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all. -- Rodney Dangerfield Society and Culture What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset. -- Crowf We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction. - General Douglas MacArthur What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens. -- Benjamin Disraeli The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons. -- Emerson, Ralph Waldo We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing, and Society and Culture I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it. -- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? blah "Ideas are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and, following them, you reach yo Society and Culture Mistakes are the portals of discovery. -- James Joyce Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed. -- Hoshang N. Akhtar Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: I would not live forever, because we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live forever, blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge. -- John Wesley Society and Culture No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent. -- Abraham Lincoln "Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) "To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') Society and Culture Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil underneath. -- Jacob Braude "Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the "Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech. - Martin Fraquhar Tupper There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it. -- Oscar Wilde Society and Culture Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few. -- George Bernard Shaw Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) Society and Culture You can observe a lot by watching. -- Yogi Berra Work is a four-letter word. -- The Smiths (Morrissey) Realism is a corruption of reality. -- Wallace Stevens Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture. -- Allen Ginsberg I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up. -- Barbara Bush, first lady, 1989 Society and Culture If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all. -- Rodney Dangerfield If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly. -- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making 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. -- Abraham Lincoln Society and Culture 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) Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon compounds that crawl. -- Mike Adams The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous str The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. Society and Culture Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth. -- Peter Ustinov Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart. -- Henry Wadsworth Lo When Baby's cries grew hard to bear I popped him in the Frigidaire. I never would have done so if I'd known that he'd be frozen stiff. My wife said, "George, I'm so unhappy! Our darling's now comple Society and Culture I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not. -- Robert G. Ingersoll Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage -- Martin Luther When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators. -- P. J. O'Rourke Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame. -- G. K. Chesterton Society and Culture Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler. -- Albert Einstein Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down. - Jimmy Durante "We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses Society and Culture Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals. -- Cynthia Heimel A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship. - John D. Rockefeller "The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage. -- Jane Austen I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat. -- Rebecca West, Society and Culture May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in the palm If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war. -- Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword. -- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii Society and Culture The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it. -- Anonymous He who awaits much can expect little. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration. -- Thomas Edison We can do no great things; only small things with great love. -- Mother Teresa My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. Society and Culture A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What do you mean?" responded her mother. "Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came back with ano The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it. -- Shirley MacLaine In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled. -- Paul Eldridge Society and Culture Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and blows up the bonfire. -- François de La Rouchefoucauld In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience. - W.B. Prescott Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe- inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least expect i There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's being off the network. -- Guy Almes When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you. - Friedrich Nietzsche Society and Culture "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by committee meetings. -- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there. -- Josh Billings Society and Culture
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