Peaker Quotes

#1. The peaker learns surely and certainly that life can be worthwhile, that it can be beautiful and valuable. There are ends in life, i.e., experiences which are so precious in themselves as to prove that not everything is a means to some end other than itself.

Abraham Maslow

#2. What is the difference between grief and mourning? Mourning has company.

Roger Rosenblatt

#3. Ships feare fire more then water.
[Ships fear fire more than water.]

George Herbert

#4. I don't make movies because I love to act. I make movies because I like to make movies, and I like to be a part of that process.

Jodie Foster

#5. Have you no morals, man?' 'Can't afford them,Governor.

George Bernard Shaw

#6. I no longer have the terrible nightmares that I used to have. Mao had just died in 1976, and China began to open up. For the first time scholarships to go to the West to study were awarded on academic merit.

Jung Chang

#7. When I'm on a plane, I am the annoying person humming into my phone. Sitting there static with nothing to do, a lot of melodies come to me. So I've written a lot of songs on planes.

Kiesza

#8. The U.N. was there to protect other Rwandese.

Tony Greig

#9. Despotism alone can provide that atmosphere of secrecy which favors crooked dealing and enables the freebooters of finance to make illicit fortunes.

Alexis De Tocqueville