Peer Pressure Quotes
Peer Pressure Quotes
Certain peer pressures encourage little fingers to learn how to hold a football instead of a
crayon. I confess to having yielded to these pressures.
Chris Van Allsburg
There's a lot of peer pressure to not do positive stories out of Iraq... I think there's a sense that
the administration got a pass during the hot days of war and now that the war is over it's time to
even out the deck somewhat.
Jerry Nachman
Rarely do schools acknowledge the power of peer culture in defining standards, and rarely do
they take advantage of this power as an engine for quality.
Mr Berger
Either you change your mind, succumbing to peer pressure and adopting the new memes as
your own, or you struggle with the extremely uncomfortable feeling of being surrounded by
people who think you're crazy or inadequate.
Richard Brodie
There's one advantage to being 102. There's no peer pressure.
Dennis Wolfberg
Talk to your children about peer pressure. Explain what a powerful force it can be, and tell them
that you will never accept the excuse that "Everyone did it"!
Tom McMahon
Personal Identity Quotes
The value of identity of course is that so often with it comes purpose.
Richard Grant
Identity is theft of the self
Estee Martin
A faculty for idleness implies a catholic appetite and a strong sense of personal identity.
Robert Louis Stevenson
What then is personal identity? It is the persistence of certain defining characteristics in a very
complex orderly society endowed with a preeminent linear society or "soul"
Professor Hartshorne
The seld depends on consciousness, not on substance.
John Locke
The memory criterion tells us which past or future person you are, but not which past or future
thing. It tells us what it takes for one person to persist as a person, but not what it takes for one
to persist without qualification.
Eric Olson
Quotes that Changed the World Quotes
Every body continues in its state of rest, or of uniform motion in a right line, unless it is
compelled to change that state by forces impressed upon it. Laws of Motion I
Isaac Newton
The alternation of motion is ever proportional to the motive force impressed; and is made in the
direction of the right line in which that force is impressed. Laws of Motion II
Isaac Newton
To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction; or, the mutual actions of two bodies
upon each other are always equal, and directed to contrary parts Laws of Motion III
Isaac Newton
The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go. [Having proposed the
heliocentric world view]
Galileo Galilei
I sometimes ask myself how it came about that I was the one to develop the theory of relativity.
The reason, I think, is that a normal adult never stops to think about space and time. My
intellectual development was retarded, as a result of which I began to wonder about space and
time only when I had grown up.
Albert Einstein
It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the
one that is the most adaptable to change. [Darwin came up with the theory of evolution by
natural selection]
Charles Darwin
Nature makes penicillin. I just found it.
Alexander Fleming
Natural Disasters Quotes
The beef industry has contributed to more American deaths than all the wars of this century, all
natural disasters, and all automobile accidents combined.
Neal Barnard
Inhabitants of underdeveloped nations and victims of natural disasters are the only people who
have ever been happy to see soy beans.
Fran Lebowitz
This sort of human solidarity, along with the grace of God, gives hope for better days to come in
the year that begins today. [on the human response to natural disasters]
Pope John Paul II
On this first day of a new year, we join the world in feeling enormous sadness over a great
human tragedy... The carnage is of a scale that defies comprehension. [after the Asian tsunami
disaster]
George Bush
At first it seemed a terrible disaster, a terrible tragedy. But I think as the days have gone on,
people have recognized it as a global catastrophe. [on the Asian tsunami]
Tony Blair
The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.
Blaise Pascal
Rverything in nature is lyrical in its ideal essence, tragic in its fate, and comic in its existence.
George Santayana
Online Advertising Quotes
Google actually relies on our users to help with our marketing. We have a very high percentage
of our users who often tell others about our search engine.
Sergey Brin
With targeting technologies, the discovery of search by major advertisers, and real measurement
and planning tools, the Internet is ready to fulfill its early promises of effectiveness, reach and
trackability
Gary Stein
Greenhouse Effect Quotes
It is virtually certain that increasing atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide and other
greenhouse gases will cause global surface climate to be warmer.
American Geophysical Union
The unprecedented increases in greenhouse gas concentrations, together with other human
influences on climate over the past century and those anticipated for the future, constitute a real
basis for concern
American Geophysical Union
We know the science, we see the threat, and we know the time for action is now
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Our effect on the environment, and in particular on climate change, is large and growing.
Tony Blair
From the start of the industrial revolution more than 200 years ago, developed nations have
achieved ever greater prosperity and higher living standards. But through this period our
activities have come to affect our atmosphere, oceans, geology, chemistry and biodiversity. What
is now plain is that the emission of greenhouse gases, associated with industrialisation and
strong economic growth from a world population that has increased sixfold in 200 years, is
causing global warming at a rate that began as significant, has become alarming and is simply
unsustainable in the long-term.
Tony Blair
Global Warming Quotes
The facts are there that we have created, man has, a self-inflicted wound through global
warming.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
America has not led but fled on the issue of global warming.
John Kerry
Global warming has melted the polar ice caps, raised the levels of the oceans and flooded the
earth's great cities. Despite its evident prosperity, New Jersey is scarcely Utopia.
Godfried Danneels
While human-induced global warming is not going to turn present-day Earth into present-day
Mars, global warming is dire enough that our most distinguished scientists recently concluded
that as many as 1 million species on the planet could be extinct by 2050 if affairs do not change.
Jay Inslee
On average, global warming is not going to harm the developing world.
Bjorn Lomborg
Future of the Internet Quotes
Nowadays, anyone who cannot speak English and is incapable of using the Internet is regarded
as backward
Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Alsaud
They say a year in the Internet business is like a dog year.. equivalent to seven years in a regular
person's life. In other words, it's evolving fast and faster.
Vinton Cerf
Information technology and business are becoming inextricably interwoven. I don't think
anybody can talk meaningfully about one without the talking about the other.
Bill Gates
There is so much media now with the Internet and people, and so easy and so cheap to start a
newspaper or start a magazine, theres just millions of voices and people want to be heard.
Rupert Murdoch
Free Will Quotes
Free will. It's like butterfly wings: once touched, they never get off the ground. No, I only set the
stage. You pull your own strings.
John Milton
Man is a being with free will; therefore, each man is potentially good or evil, and it's up to him
and only him through his reasoning mind to decide which he wants to be.
Ayn Rand
God is not willing to do everything, and thus take away our free will and that share of glory
which belongs to us.
Niccolo Machiavelli
Human freedom is not an illusion; it is an objective phenomenon, distinct from all other
biological conditions and found in only one species, us
Daniel Dennett
This doctrine, that of the ghost in the machine, strictly separates the mind or soul from the
body. And by doing so it takes the soul outside the sphere of mechanical or scientific
explanation. It splits the world of the mind from the world of science. It is often supposed to
protect our cherished free will.
Simon Blackburn
Extreme Sports Quotes
I love extreme sports, I like snowboarding and motorcross and rollerblading and hockey
Jeremy London
He is shedding buckets of adrenaline in that car
Murray Walker
It feels like I'm flying. It's just the best feeling ever.
Aaron Fotheringham
BASE jumpers, like most adventure seekers, are motivated by a variety of things. Some are
attracted to the risks and enjoy working to minimize those risks.
Tom Buchanan
Beauty and Cosmetics Quotes
Surgery is always second best. If you can do something else, it's better.
John Kirklin
Plastic surgery and breast implants are fine for people who want that, if it makes them feel
better about who they are.
Kate Winslet
Becoming the new feminine ideal requires just the right combination of insecurity, exercise,
bulimia and surgery.
G B Trudeau
Everyone should have enough money to get plastic surgery.
Beverley Johnson
There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.
Maria Mitchell
In the factory we make cosmetics; in the drugstore we sell hope.
Charles Revson
Cosmetics is a boon to every woman, but a girl's best beauty aid is still a near-sighted man.
Yoko Ono
Beauty and Cosmetics Quotes
Surgery is always second best. If you can do something else, it's better.
John Kirklin
Plastic surgery and breast implants are fine for people who want that, if it makes them feel
better about who they are.
Kate Winslet
Becoming the new feminine ideal requires just the right combination of insecurity, exercise,
bulimia and surgery.
G B Trudeau
Everyone should have enough money to get plastic surgery.
Beverley Johnson
There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.
Maria Mitchell
In the factory we make cosmetics; in the drugstore we sell hope.
Charles Revson
Cosmetics is a boon to every woman, but a girl's best beauty aid is still a near-sighted man.
Yoko Ono
Celebrity and Fame Quotes
Americans once expected parents to raise their children in accordance with the dominant
cultural messages. Once the chorus of cultural values was full of ministers, teachers, neighbors,
leaders. They demanded more conformity, but offered more support. Now the messengers are
violent cartoon characters, rappers and celebrities selling sneakers.
Ellen Goodman
A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses
to avoid being recognised.
Fred Allen
The nice thing about being a celebrity is that when you bore people, they think it's their fault.
Henry Kissinger
When once a man has made celebrity necessary to his happiness, he has put it in the power of
the weakest and most timorous malignity, if not to take away his satisfaction, at least to
withhold it. His enemies may indulge their pride by airy negligence and gratify their malice by
quiet neutrality.
Samuel Johnson
I guess there can't be much in being a celebrity after all.
Walt Disney
In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes.
Andy Warhol
The public fascination with such celebrities, though not technically a cult, leads to a level of
Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk
beside me and be my friend.
Albert Camus
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt, This is My Story
If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his
equals.
J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.
Mark Twain
A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.
Elbert Hubbard
Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde
I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people
will never forget how you made them feel.
Maya Angelou
Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
Mahatma Gandhi
I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.
Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories
Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only
love can do that.
Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches
To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
Oscar Wilde
Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.
Narcotics Anonymous, Narcotics Anonymous
Without music, life would be a mistake.
Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols, Or, How to Philosophize With the Hammer
I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go,
things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right, you believe lies so you
eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better
The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.
Mark Twain
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
Thomas A. Edison
It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
Friedrich Nietzsche
The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's
indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not
death, it's indifference.
Elie Wiesel
Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.
Groucho Marx, The Essential Groucho: Writings For By And About Groucho Marx
I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.
Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important
than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
Albert Einstein
A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.
Steve Martin
Never put off till tomorrow what may be done day after tomorrow just as well".
From: "More Maxims of Mark
Mark Twain
I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.
Dr. Seuss
That which does not kill us makes us stronger.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
Winston S. Churchill
If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. No use being a damn fool about it.
W.C. Fields
Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value.
Albert Einstein
I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better.
Maya Angelou
You might be poor, your shoes might be broken, but your mind is a palace.
Frank McCourt, Angela's Ashes
Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation.
Walter Cronkite
Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.
Oscar Wilde
The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.
Friedrich Nietzsche
It is not that I'm so smart. But I stay with the questions much longer.
Albert Einstein
The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.
Albert Einstein
People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they
seldom use.
Sren Kierkegaard
You are not entitled to your opinion. You are entitled to your informedopinion. No one is
entitled to be ignorant.
Harlan Ellison
An intellectual? Yes. And never deny it. An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself. I
like this, because I am happy to be both halves, the watcher and the watched. "Can they be
brought together?" This is a practical question. We must get down to it. "I despise intelligence"
really means: "I cannot bear my doubts.
Albert Camus
A good head and good heart are always a formidable combination. But when you add to that a
literate tongue or pen, then you have something very special.
Nelson Mandela
Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the
loftiest intelligence whether much that is glorious whether all that is profound does not
spring from disease of thought from moods of mind exalted at the expense of the general
intellect.
Edgar Allan Poe, Complete Tales and Poems
Do stuff. be clenched, curious. Not waiting for inspiration's shove or society's kiss on your
forehead. Pay attention. It's all about paying attention. attention is vitality. It connects you with
I don't trust people who don't love themselves and tell me, 'I love you.' ... There is an African
saying which is: Be careful when a naked person offers you a shirt.
Maya Angelou
The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.
Ernest Hemingway
Trust is like a mirror, you can fix it if it's broken, but you can still see the crack in that mother
fucker's reflection.
Lady Gaga
Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time.
Maya Angelou
Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.
William Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well
I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you.
Friedrich Nietzsche
All the world is made of faith, and trust, and pixie dust.
J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan
I don't trust people who don't love themselves and tell me, 'I love you.' ... There is an African
saying which is: Be careful when a naked person offers you a shirt.
Maya Angelou
The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.
Ernest Hemingway
Trust is like a mirror, you can fix it if it's broken, but you can still see the crack in that mother
fucker's reflection.
Lady Gaga
Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time.
Maya Angelou
To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.
Eleanor Roosevelt
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
William Arthur Ward
It's hard to lead a cavalry charge if you think you look funny on a horse.
Adlai E. Stevenson II
Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.
Robert Louis Stevenson
If you want to rebel, rebel from inside the system.That's much more powerful than rebelling
outside the system.
Marie Lu, Legend
The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that
gets the people to do the greatest things.
Ronald Reagan
If your actions create a legacy that inspires others to dream more, learn more, do more and
become more, then, you are an excellent leader.
Dolly Parton
Leadership is not about titles, positions or flowcharts. It is about one life influencing another.
John C. Maxwell
Dont waste your energy trying to educate or change opinions; go over, under, through, and
opinions will change organically when youre the boss. Or they wont. Who cares? Do your thing,
and dont care if they like it.
Tina Fey, Bossypants
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
William Arthur Ward
It's hard to lead a cavalry charge if you think you look funny on a horse.
Adlai E. Stevenson II
Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.
Robert Louis Stevenson
If you want to rebel, rebel from inside the system.That's much more powerful than rebelling
outside the system.
Marie Lu, Legend
The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that
gets the people to do the greatest things.
Ronald Reagan
If your actions create a legacy that inspires others to dream more, learn more, do more and
become more, then, you are an excellent leader.
Dolly Parton
Leadership is not about titles, positions or flowcharts. It is about one life influencing another.
John C. Maxwell
Dont waste your energy trying to educate or change opinions; go over, under, through, and
opinions will change organically when youre the boss. Or they wont. Who cares? Do your thing,
and dont care if they like it.
Tina Fey, Bossypants
There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.
Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
There are two basic motivating forces: fear and love. When we are afraid, we pull back from
life. When we are in love, we open to all that life has to offer with passion, excitement, and
acceptance. We need to learn to love ourselves first, in all our glory and our imperfections. If we
cannot love ourselves, we cannot fully open to our ability to love others or our potential to
create. Evolution and all hopes for a better world rest in the fearlessness and open-hearted
vision of people who embrace life.
John Lennon
I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I
will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I
will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will
remain.
Frank Herbert, Dune
Bran thought about it. 'Can a man still be brave if he's afraid?'
'That is the only time a man can be brave,' his father told him.
George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones
Fear doesn't shut you down; it wakes you up
Veronica Roth, Divergent
Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.
J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your
dreams.
Dr. Seuss
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by
the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade
winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
H. Jackson Brown Jr., P.S. I Love You