Iuga, Emil - Journalist and student of media. Profile, research, links.
Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
-- Henry James What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the
unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is
also the m I Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
-- Rita Rudner "... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) I
Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on
a date.
-- Caroline Rhea I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department
store and he asked for my autograph.
-- Shirley Temple Black "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't
natural.
-- Bob Beckel, on term limits, CBS This Morning, 3/30/95 History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford I Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle I
The important thing is not to stop questioning.
-- Albert Einstein You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had
never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
-- Orison Swett Marden The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
-- P. J. O'Rourke I "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should
live honourably.
-- Kant, Immanuel I
May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
-- Terry Cohen Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of
fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality
and There is more to life than increasing its speed.
-- Gandhi I Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo I
If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristotle Onassis I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-- Benjamin Franklin Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
-- French saying Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells I "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. I
Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy
together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back
on at I Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
-- Rose Franken "I think people resist freedom because they're afraid of the unknown. But it's ironic....That unknown was once very well known. It's where are souls belong....The only solution is to confront them--co It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde I
We must become the change we want to see.
-- Gandhi There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers I The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too.
When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing
extraordinary "You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 I
"Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine 'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to
substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
-- Iris Murdoch I "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle I
Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of
humor is just common sense, dancing.
-- Clive James "Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." (George Sanders, suicide note) The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same
joke and still feel lonely.
-- T. S. Eliot "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are
legislators.
-- P. J. O'Rourke I Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
the other person.
-- Mark Twain Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick I
Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop
questioning.
-- Albert Einstein "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
-- Christopher Morley There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you
yourself have altered.
-- Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom "I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's w I Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are
capable of being.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
-- Bette-Jane Raphael Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the
top.
-- Ed Abbey I
The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first
comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen I "I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
-- Albert Einstein Go away...I'm alright.
-- H. G. Wells, dying words I
