Quotes & Sayings About Resisting Peer Pressure

I was never restricted. I was never told what to do. — Ray Harryhausen

The master proves himselin recognizing his limitations. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

My father was a news guy, you know, he was in radio news. And so that was sort of in my DNA. It was something we talked about at the dinner table when I was a kid. — Bill Maher

The most delicious sensation of all is the re-birth of healthy human love. Spring coming back to Earth! — Aleister Crowley

He was absurd to the point of inspiration. — Joseph Conrad

A mind which has once imbibed a taste for scientific enquiry, and has learnt the habit of applying its principles readily to the cases which occur, has within itself an inexhaustible source of pure and exciting contemplations. — John Herschel

Observe the great Advantage and Benefit, the Privilege and Prerogative that Christ's Servants have beyond all others; Christ writes his Letters to them; there is not a word written to Kings and great Men; but it is to shew his Servants things to come to pass — James Durham

Nature is sanative, refining, elevating. How cunningly she hides every wrinkle of her inconceivable antiquity under roses, and violets, and morning dew! Every inch of the mountains is scarred by unimaginable convulsions, yet the new day is purple with the bloom of youth and love. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Perhaps it's true that in our sex-saturated culture it does take a certain amount of self-discipline to resist having sex, but restraint does not equal morality. And let's be honest: if this were simply about resisting peer pressure and being strong, then the women who have sex because they actively want to - as appalling as that idea might be to those who advocate abstinence - wouldn't be scorned. Because the "strength" involved in these women's choice would be about doing what they want despite pressure to the contrary, not about resisting the sex act itself. — Jessica Valenti

Perhaps fate has a way of turning things around and making something good out of the action of someone who failed humanity without meaning to. — Janvier Chouteu-Chando

The thought is full of comfort that He who has established the boundary lines of our lives has also determined the boundaries of our tribulation. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

I played the guitar in ninth grade. My sister's friend went on a semester abroad, and she left the guitar at our house for nine months. — David Walton

The wealth is ultimately just a relative thing. As a person with little money and little more needs to rich guys money but really wishes — Charles Caleb Colton

One cubic inch of nanotube circuitry, once fully developed, would be up to one hundred million times more powerful than the human brain.9 — Ray Kurzweil

In early Judaism, the priesthood was maintained within various families and passed down from father to son, thus necessitating marriage. But this is the old covenant, and even within this model priests were required to abstain from having sex with their wives during the time they served in the Temple. Catholics believe that priests fulfill this Temple relationship ever day - the Mass and the Eucharist mean they are serving in the Temple every day of their ordained lives. — Michael Coren