number 137

It is easy to go down into Hell; night and day, the gates of dark Death stand wide; but to climb back again, to retrace one's steps to the upper air - there's the rub, the task.

Virgil, Aeneid

number 136

A human being is only interesting if he's in contact with himself. I learned you have to trust yourself, be what you are, and do what you ought to do the way you should do it. You have got to discover you, what you do, and trust it.

Barbra Streisand

Number 135

While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, the other is busy making mistakes and becoming superior.


Henry C. Link

Number 134

It is true that I was born in Iowa, but I can't speak for my twin sister.
  - Abigail Van Buren

Number 133

The skill of writing is to create a context in which other people can think.
  - Edwin Schlossberg

Number 132

We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Number 131 Merry Christmas to all that celebrate it

What ought to be done to the man who invented the celebrating of anniversaries? Mere killing would be too light.

Mark Twain

Number 130

I do not pray for success, I ask for faithfulness. Mother Teresa

Number 129

I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
Xenocrates

Number 128

Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day.
  - Bertrand Russell

Number 127

This is my last post here for 2010. TLCreations will be periodically making entries during the holiday season. At this time, want to express my appreciation to all of you for your support since I started this blog in May of this year. I also want to thank tlcreations for coming aboard here as co-author and friend! From the both of us, Season's Greetings to each of you!

Check out my new blog: http://celebratingbrothashirsutearmpits.blogspot.com.

Number 126

Number 125

I'm proud that we took these fights on.

Please join me in thanking those in Congress who helped make "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" repeal possible:



Thank you,

Barack

Number 124

People who say they sleep like a baby usually don't have one.
  - Leo J. Burke

Number 123

What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?
- Henry David Thoreau

Number 122

In films murders are always very clean. I show how difficult it is and what a messy thing it is to kill a man.

- Alfred Hitchcock

Number 121

Many a man who falls in love with a pit make the mistake of marrying the whole man.
- Evan Esar

Number 120

If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
- Abraham Maslow