Skot Pek Quotes & Sayings

Children from the age of five to ten should watch more television. Television depicts adults as rotten SOB's given to fistfights, gunplay, and other mayhem. Kids who believe this about grownups aren't likely to argue about bedtime. — P. J. O'Rourke

Looking at them now as folks chased in and out, getting ready, it was hard for Cora to image a time when the fourteen cabins hadn't been there. For all the wear, the complaints from deep in the wood at every step, the cabins had the always-quality of the hills to the west, of the creek that bisected the property. The cabins radiated permanence and in turn summed timeless feelings in those who lived and died in them: envy and spite. If they'd left more space between the old cabins and the new cabins it would have spared a lot of grief over the years. — Colson Whitehead

I noticed nearly everyone had a cup of Aunt Jewel's punch. It was the weirdest thing to me how everyone openly acknowledged that it was terrible, but kept drinking it anyway. Manners in action, I guess. — Rachel Hawkins

After our next date, we'll be spending most of our time making out, so we need to get all the questions out of the way now. — Colleen Hoover

If you had told me 28 years ago that the largest organization in the world touching the lives of gays and lesbians would be a church, I would not have believed you. — Troy Perry

Lies are a trap, not a deception. — Barry Kelly

Failure is not an end-it is the means to an end. Study your failures, for they are the scrambled secrets of success. — Romina Russell

The beauty of a woman is first a soulful beauty. And yes, as we live it out, own it, inhabit our beauty, we do become more lovely. More alluring. As the poet Gerard Manley Hopkins wrote, "Self flashes off frame and face." Our true self becomes reflected in our appearance. But it flows from the inside — John Eldredge

Sometimes horrible choices can lead to the right decision, its not where we start that's important but where we end. — Ava Harrison

I don't profess to be a healer, a minister, a priest. I feel as an entertainer I can do more good for the world than I would if I were a soapbox orator or a self-made politician. — Liberace

I think Paul Martin doesn't mean what he says. He said he would clear this sort of thing up and he didn't do it. — Jack Layton

Without favour none will know you, and with it you will not know your selfe. — George Herbert

Unless men of purpose, integrity, and faith stand together in unswerving loyalty to Jesus Christ, the future of the world is dark indeed. — Billy Graham

Insight makes argument ridiculous. — John Lancaster Spalding

I'd sooner be smashed into a mangled pulp by a bus when we cross the street than look forward to a life like yours. — W. Somerset Maugham