Life is a gift, don't take it for granted.
Don't look back and ask why, look forward and ask why not.
    (Unknown)  #quote

The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
   (Tom Clancy) #quote

Perception is reality.
 (Unknown) #quote

There are many things in life that will catch your eye.

But only a few will catch your heart.

   (Ben Crenshaw) #quote

I know that you believe you understand what you think I said,
but I’m not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.
   (Robert McCloskey) #quote

The darkest hour is just before the dawn.

   (Proverb)  #quote

A good example has twice the value of good advice.

    (Proverb) #quote

If all the economists were laid end to end, they'd never reach a conclusion.
   (George Bernard Shaw) #quote
Replace by IT architect or everything you want ..

Optimism means expecting the best, but confidence means knowing how to handle the worst. Never make a move if you are merely optimistic.
  (the Zurick Axiom) #quote

Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
    (Abraham Lincoln)  #quote

Oublie ton passé qu'il soit composé ou simple
et participe a ton présent
pour que ton futur soit plus-que-parfait.
   (Unknown) #quote

Ne pas confondre "composer" et "poser (les) cons"... 
   (Bear Is Not Always Cool)

Ours blanc en perdition :)

Mind without a heart is like gas without a fart.
The pressure keeps building and there’s no relief in sight ...
  (Sri Gawn) #quote

Intrigués de découvrir chaque matin leur grosse bassine d'eau vide des habitants du Colorado ont installé une caméra.  Bear Is Cool !



When in doubt, mumble.
When in charge, ponder.
When in trouble, delegate.
   (Boren's Laws) #quote

If a man who cannot count finds a four-leaf clover, is he lucky?
   (Stanislaw J Lec) #quote

Life is
a dream for the wise,
a game for the fool,
a comedy for the rich,
a tragedy for the poor.
   (Sholom Aleichem) #quote

Au poker le plus important ce ne sont pas les cartes,
mais ce que vous en faites ...
   (pub) #quote

Everybody wants happiness,

and nobody wants pain,

but you can't have a rainbow, without a little rain.

  (Zion Le) #quote

Devinette, lors d'un souper ce soir,
- Mr et Mme BURANT ont un fils, comment l’appelle-t-il ?
- OSCAR
(pour Hausse Carburant)
..... ou comment annoncer les mauvaises nouvelles avec un brin d'humour ...

The problem is all inside your head, she said to me
The answer is easy if you take it logically
I'd like to help you in your struggle to be free
There must be fifty ways to leave your lover
(50 Ways To Leave Your Lover, Paul Simon) #quote -
.....  replace lover by everything you want

Leadership is based on inspiration, not domination;
on cooperation, not intimidation.
  (William Arthur Wood) #quote

La nostalgie d'un avant ronge t-elle autant que la privation d'un bien ignoré ?
   (Tonino Benacquista in Homo Erectus) #quote

Plus elles sont nombreuses moins elles existent .. elles sont solubles 

   (In la pièce L'illusion conjugale")

Ham and eggs :
A day's work for a chicken;
A lifetime commitment for a pig.
   (Unknown) #quote

On est pas là pour 'pelleter des nuages' .... mais pour agir !

When we are no longer able to change a situation,
we are challenged to change ourselves.
   (Victor Frankl) #quote

Friends have a way of speaking without words.  (Unknown) #quote

One’s mind, once stretched by a new idea,
never regains its original dimensions.
   (Oliver Wendell Holmes) #quote

Do not regret growing older. It is a privilege denied to many.
   (Unknown) #quote

You don't need more time, you just need to decide.
   (Seth Godin) #quote

Quand les gens sont de mon avis,
j'ai toujours le sentiment de m'être trompé.
  (Oscar Wilde) #quote

One’s mind, once stretched by a new idea,

never regains its original dimensions.

(Oliver Wendell Holmes ) #quote

Change is not a destination, 
just as hope is not a strategy.
  (Rudy Giuliani) #quote

You cannot adopt politics as a profession and remain honest.
   (Ambrose Bierce) #quote

If you're talking behind my back, you're in a good position to kiss my ass.
   (Unknown) #quote

Parodies and caricatures are the most penetrating of criticisms.
   (Aldous Huxley) #quote

We must believe in luck.
For how else can we explain the success of those we don't like.
  (Jean Cocteau) #quote

Cuddy: Where did you come from?
House: Apes, if you believe the Democrats

Children and zip fasteners do not respond to force ...
except occasionally.
  (Katherine Whitehorn) #quote
 

If you can find a path with no obstacles,
it probably doesn't lead anywhere.
   (Frank A. Clark) #quote

 

Etrange au sujet du logo Coca-Cola

Entre celui de droite et celui de gauche (le logo retournée), quelle différence ?

Et bien sur le logo retournée on voit (imagine) un homme blanc cracher sur un homme noir.

Conflict cannot survive without your participation.
   (W.Dyer)  #quote



Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed

by the things that you didn't do

than by the ones you did do.

 (Mark Twain) #quote

Religion just killed another person.   (House in Dr House 6x10) #quote

Because expressing how dumb that was in words just doesn't work.

Bar l'Ours Blanc à Montréal (photo OT)

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement.
   (Helen Keller) #quote

Les survivants de l'extrême, exposition au Palais de la Découverte, affiche illustrée par un ours blanc ....

What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas !
   (in movie Very Bad Trip) #quote

Good advice is something a man gives

when he is too old to set a bad example.

    (Francois de La Rochefoucauld) #quote

In my house I'm the boss, my wife is just the decision maker.
   (Woody Allen) #quote

I'm not bossy..

I just have better ideas. !

I'm not bossy ....

I just know what you

should be doing !

Lottery : A tax on people who are bad at math.
   (Unknown) #quote

Do one brave thing today ...  then run like hell !

Trust is like a vase..
once it's broken, though you can fix it the vase will never be same again.
    (Unknown) #quote

Nothing travels faster than the speed of light,
with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws.  
   (Douglas Adams) #quote

Six Stages of a Project
1. Wild Enthusiasm
2. Disillusionment
3. Total Confusion
4. Search for the Guilty
5. Punishment of the Innocent
6. Reward of the Non-Participants

Politics is the art of looking for trouble,
finding it, misdiagnosing it,
and then misapplying the wrong remedies.
    (Groucho Marx) #quote

Vaut-il mieux des remords ou des regrets ?

Dans toute statistique, l'inexactitude du nombre est compensée par la précision des décimales.
  (Alfred Sauvy)  #quote


Dans toute évaluation, l’incertitude du nombre est masquée par le niveau de détail du modèle.
  (BearIsCool)

Highway to Hell (AC/DC, lyrics, excerpt)

No stop signs
Speed limit
Nobody's gonna slow me down
Like a wheel
Gonna spin it
Nobody's gonna mess me 'round
Hey Satan
Paid my dues
Playin' in a rockin' band
Hey momma
Look at me
I'm on my way to the Promised Land, wooh
.....

Vision without action is a daydream.

Action without vision is a nightmare.

   (Japanese proverb) #quote

Love without action is meaningless.
Action without love is irrelevant.
   (Deepak Chopra) #quote

Life is not about the people who act true to your face;
it's about the people who remain true behind your back.
   (Unknown) #quote

Le grand ours blanc de (François Pompon)  - Superbe !

Compromise, if not the spice of life, is its solidity.
It is what makes nations great and marriages happy.
  (Phyllis McGinley) #quote

 

Grizzly @ home

Bear vs Otary ... and bear win ! Thanks Danièle :)

Un type qui ne peut pas garder sa femme ne peut pas garder la France.
   (De Villepin propos de Sarkozy, In Le Monde 2, 18 mars 2006) #quote

Nothing is impossible, the word itself says "  I'm possible ! "
   (Audrey Hepburn) #quote

Bear @ home !

The opposite of love is not hate, its indifference.
   (Elie Wiesel )  #quote

- It's not fair that I'm disadvantaged just because I refuse to participate in office politics
- That's like saying that it's unfair that you keep losing at golf because you don't want to user a putter

In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.  
   (Dalai Lama)  #quote

Customers don't complain - they just go somewhere else.
   (D.Joubert) #quote

There is nothing more dangerous than the moment

you become a hostage to yesterday's comfort zone.

  (Rob Thompson) #quote

People know you for what you've done, not for what you plan to do.
   (Unknown) #quote

Desinit in piscem mulier formosa superne
(Se termine en queue de poisson )

If 'pro' is the opposite of 'con' what is the opposite of 'progress' ?
   (Paul Harvey) #quote

You cannot always wait for the perfect time,
sometimes you must dare to jump.
   (Unknown) #quote

Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it.
  (Christopher Morley) #quote

Toutan tèt poko koupe, li espere pote chapo.
[Tant que la tête n'est pas coupée, elle a l'espoir de porter le chapeau]
  (Proverbe Haïtien), #quote

Si tu veux comprendre le mot bonheur,
il faut l'entendre comme récompense et non comme but.
   (Antoine de Saint-Exupéry) #quote

Après la révolution du Jasmin, campagne décalée de l'OT de Tunisie !

Bien trouvé !

Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live.
   (Jim Rohn) #quote

I've never had a humble opinion.
If you've got an opinion, why be humble about it?
   (Joan Baez) #quote

An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.

     (Mahatma Gandhi)  #quote

Après le "YES, WE CAN" d'Obama, 
Après le "YES, WE KHAN"
le "YES, tu CANES" - titré dans le Canard Enchaîné  !

Too bad ! All the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxi cabs and cutting hair.
(George Burns) #quote

Today I'm  like a bear with a sore head  !

A bosser avec des boulets, on sort rarement des projets canons.
   (Harnold Confucius in Facebook m'a tuer ) #quote

Comme un ours dans l'eau :)

Le Canada & moi : ça restera entre nous



Travel makes one modest.
You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.
    (Scott Cameron) #quote

Le premier Mai c'est pas gai 
Je trime a dit le muguet 
Dix fois plus que d'habitude
Regrettable servitude. 


Muguet, soit pas chicaneur, 
Car tu donnes du bonheur, 
Pas cher à tout un chacun. 
Brin d'muguet, tu es quelqu'un.
(Georges Brassens)

Life is work of art, you gotta paint it colorful.
  (Unknown) #quote

True friendSHIP is a SHIP that carries us through rough seas.
   (African proverb) #quote