Riis Beach Quotes & Sayings

The running shoe ... could be called the Swiss Army knife of footwear ... What appeal is there to a shoe whose only selling point is comfort? — Mimi Pond

Wide differences of opinion in matters of religious, political, and social belief must exist if conscience and intellect alike are not to be stunted, if there is to be room for healthy growth. — Theodore Roosevelt

It is a fact: Of all the people we ever know in our lifetime, the only thing we have in common with them is a handful of shared experiences. — Joel T. McGrath

Above all, being a Democrat means having compassion for others ... It means standing up for people who have been kept down ... — George McGovern

What kind of influence did my parents have on my life? Well, they had the most influence. These are the people who are closest to me. My parents are very positive people. They've been supportive. They're always there. — Derek Jeter

Zen is the purest of meditations: just sit silently, doing nothing. — Osho

Life would again have to make superhuman efforts, "as in a battle," to break open for himself a path through the truths created by the sciences which "dream of being but cannot see it in waking reality. — Lev Shestov

Reading...can make you fell like not one lone cell stranded in the desolation of the world, but one of eight billion cells conjoined by the world, all hearts echoing the others in the song of one enormous heart. — Randall Silvis

[Armenian] is a rich language, however, and would amply repay any one the trouble of learning it. — Lord Byron

In recovery, we try to take the opposite of our character defects/shortcomings and turn them into principles. For example, we work to change fear into faith, hate into love, egoism into humility, anxiety and worry into serenity, complacency into action, denial into acceptance, jealousy into trust, fantasizing into reality, selfishness into service, resentment into forgiveness, judgmentalism into tolerance, despair into hope, self-hate into self-respect, and loneliness into fellowship. Through this work we learn to understand the principles of our program. — Anonymous

A mathematician believes that describing the speed of Mercury with equations amounts to science. — Bill Gaede

Peace is the language we must speak. — Pope Francis

Once a thing is known,it can't be UNknown. — Chris Crutcher

When people have a willpower failure, it's because they haven't anticipated a situation that's going to come along. — Charles Duhigg

You know what's fun? You pick somebody at random, like out of the phone book, and send them about 100 'Just Because' cards. They can't even ask you why you did it. — Brian Regan