Rieff Praise Quotes & Sayings

Adrian was like a sexy, scary Mary Poppins. — Temple West

To survive, you must tell stories. — Umberto Eco

Life with kids is unpredictable. Their propensity to live "in the moment" clashes easily with our "perfect plans. — Jill Savage

The dark has teeth. — Zoraida Cordova

If you can live with less of what you have.
You can be more of who you are. — Celso Cukierkorn

Here we see a young man in an empty room, checking his watch as no one comes to share in the refreshments he has carefully placed on the table behind him. There is some comfort for those of us taking the theological turn in youth ministry to hear of Bonhoeffer's own failures, especially with young adults. We also often find it hard to create the spaces to connect with young adults. And if Bonhoeffer is our forefather, it is important to recognize his failures as much as his glowing successes. — Andrew Root

I love Michigan, to be honest. I don't think I'd live nowhere else. It's cheap! This is Detroit. A little bit of nothing gets you a lot of something. — Danny Brown

Make the hard ones look easy and the easy ones look hard. — Walter Hagen

I do not find that I grow any older. Being arrived at seventy, and considering that by traveling further in the same road I should probably be led to the grave, I stopped short, turned about, and walked back again; which having done these four years, you may now call me sixty-six. Advise those old friends of ours to follow my example; keep up your spirits, and that will keep up your bodies. — Benjamin Franklin

'This is how democracy works,' Barack Obama lectured the country before giving everyone the specifics of his expansive one-man executive overreach on immigration. If you enjoy platitudinous straw men but are turned off by open debate and constitutional order, this speech was for you. — David Harsanyi

Celebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one's actions. — Abraham Joshua Heschel

He was impressed and surprised and, more than anything, he was intrigued. He was growing to enjoy the way her eyes squinted and her mouth twisted as she concentrated hard. Sometimes he heard her murmur, "Hmm, yes, I know," and he wanted to creep inside her head and join in her madness. — Melina Marchetta

The fastest and most sure way to be successful with any business or job is to do what you love to do. — Jamie Khan

No man ever stood the lower in my estimation for having a patch in his clothes: yet I am sure that there is greater anxiety, commonly, to have fashionable, or at least clean and unpatched clothes, than to have a sound conscience. — Henry David Thoreau

Watching something is nothing like doing it. — Paul Newman