Positive Peer Influence Quotes & Sayings

It is a mistake," he said, " to suppose that the public wants the environment protected or their lives saved and that they will be grateful to any idealist who will fight for such ends. What the public wants is their own individual comfort. We know that well enough from our experience in the environmental crisis of the twentieth century. Once it was well known that cigarettes increased the incidence of lung cancer, the obvious remedy was to stop smoking, but the desired remedy was a cigarette that did not cause cancer. When it became clear that the internal-combustion engine was polluting the atmosphere dangerously, the obvious remedy was to abandon such engines, and the desired remedy was to develop non-polluting engines. — Isaac Asimov

When you go out hunting wicked spirits, it's the simple things that matter most. The silvered point of your rapier flashing in the dark; the iron filings scattered on the floor; the sealed canisters of best Greek Fire, ready as a last resort ...
But tea bags, brown and fresh and plenty of them, and made (for preference) by Pitkin Brothers of Bond Street, are perhaps the simplest and best of all.
OK, they may not save your life like a sword-tip or an iron circle can, and they haven't the protective power of a sudden wall of fire. But they do provide something just as vital. They help keep you sane. — Jonathan Stroud

[I am not] one of those thoughtless people who always uncritically accept what is new as necessarily better. — Pope Benedict XVI

Not all poison was bitter. Some of the deadliest poisons in the world tasted sweet; they were that much more dangerous because of it. — Nenia Campbell

Whatever you do, make a difference. Earn the right to look back at something and say, 'I did that.' — Michael Josephson

They can't push women all the way back, but they can use women's bodies to keep them under surveillance and control. — Katha Pollitt

Rome, like Washington, is small enough, quiet enough, for strong personal intimacies; Rome, like Washington, has its democratic court and its entourage of diplomatic circle; Rome, like Washington, gives you plenty of time and plenty of sunlight. In New York we have annihilated both. — M. E. W. Sherwood

Stupid, stupid, endorphins. Just like that, I became a puddle of erotic hormones, a lovesick teenager in heat. — Jettie Woodruff

I have gone out with younger men, and they're great fun; they've got enthusiasm. Stamina! But I think older men are much better lovers. — Jerry Hall