Lake Placid Quotes

#1. Absolutely nothing was happening in my marriage. I nicknamed my waterbed, Lake Placid!

Phyllis Diller

#2. I was still in the college and they told me I should try it. At the time, I still thought I was going to be an Olympic softball player. But later, when I retired from softball in 2007, I decided to give bobsled a try. I emailed the coach and got invited to Lake Placid for a tryout and I never left.

Elana Meyers

#3. Yeah, no one really grows up competing in the bobsled. You have to be 16 years old before you can even drive one. And there are really only two places in the country where you can bobsled - Park City, Utah, and Lake Placid, New York.

Elana Meyers

#4. No prosaic description can portray the grandeur of 40 miles of rugged mountains rising beyond a placid lake in which each shadowy precipice and each purple gorge is reflected with a vividness that rivals the original.

Herbert Hoover

#5. Managers assert drive and control to get things done; leaders pause to discover new ways of being and achieving .

Kevin Cashman

#6. He wished he could prop his fearful self up in a corner like a broom and walk away.

Nina George

#7. People we love must be loved as they are. It is a want both of wisdom and courage on our part - a sort of drug - this wilful blindness, to blame them, because they fail our vision of them ...

Mrs. Patrick Campbell

#8. Most of us miss our best opportunities in life because they come to us disguised as work.

Nido R. Qubein

#9. Delusions are hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding insane people living in a backwards world.

Shannon L. Alder

#10. You have agency, and you are free to choose. But there is actually no free agency. Agency has its price. You have to pay the consequences of your choices.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

#11. How had she ever thought his blue eyes placid as a lake? But there was untold power in any water: to buoy, to drown, to toss, to carry one to the safety of shore.

Julie Anne Long

#12. It's unreasonable to expect medical doctors and pharmaceutical companies to tell you how to avoid their services by trying the alternatives.

Andrew Saul

#13. As a piece of rope, when burnt, retains its form, but cannot serve to bind, so is the ego which is burnt by the fire of supreme Knowledge.

Ramakrishna

#14. I contempleted the lake; the waters were placid, all around was calm and the snowy mountains ... the calm and heavenly scene restored me and I continued my journey toward Geneva.

Mary Shelley

#15. If we don't defend what we love-if we let it fade-then our lives lose meaning. We must declare ourselves of what we are ... What we love.

Guillermo Del Toro

#16. You know, it sounds corny, but I believe in myself. And I work hard.

Arthur Godfrey

#17. In a personalized world, important but complex or unpleasant issues are less likely to come to our attention at all.

Eli Pariser

#18. Some people learn by the mistakes of others, but most of us are the others.

William Prescott