Top 100 Peer Quotes
#1. I definitely think some of my older female peer group are deeply beautiful women. They have this thing that radiates from them.
Julia Roberts
#2. My peer would have to be dark-haired and handsome, a wonderful dancer ... and he would never ask permission before he kissed me. -Lillian Bowman
Lisa Kleypas
#3. Never give in to peer pressure, especially if the peer is not attractive.
Eugene Mirman
#4. TRUTH is the true victim today. Truth has become the politically incorrect "No-No" born from fear of government, school peer and/or family pressures and penalties, or just plain evasion, lying, cheating, and/or corruption-laden behavior on personal and business levels.
Alexandra York
#6. There's one advantage to being 102. There's no peer pressure.
Dennis Wolfberg
#7. I write about modern people who share a deep sense of connection to the mysteries of the past. I find that I understand myself and my world better when I'm able to peer into history as a mirror.
Ian Caldwell
#8. That man has no shadow," he says, as Chandresh leans over the twins to peer out the window at the empty street.
"what did you say?" Chandresh asks, but Poppet and Widget, and the orange kittens have already run off down the hall, lost in the colorful crowd.
Erin Morgenstern
#9. If you choose to engage in one night stands, make sure you have a good reason and peer pressure is NOT one.
Shahla Khan
#10. The fear of man is no respecter of persons. It might be called codependency by adults, peer pressure with teens, and shyness with children, but whatever it is called, it all betrays the same idolatrous heart.
Edward T. Welch
#11. Our ancestors are our children; we peer through a hole in the wall and watch them play in their rooms, and they can't see us.
Amin Maalouf
#12. It is a Lancashire custom to be on the defensive. We anticipate jokes about rain, "bi gum," and Wigan; we expect people to peer at us through the thin layer of smoke they fancy they see around our heads.
Sylvia Lovat Corbridge
#13. To my way of thinking, Troitzky has no peer among endgame compsers; no one else has composed so many and such varied endings of the first rank.
Jose Raul Capablanca
#14. If you associate yourself with peer pressure or complacency, you're destined for failure.
Kevin Gates
#15. It's very nice to work with my father as a peer in a lot of ways. You know, he asked me advice about certain things about the show and I'd ask him and sometimes I'd listen to his direction and sometimes I wouldn't.
Emily Deschanel
#16. To some people, I may seem calm. But if you could peer beneath the surface, you would see that I'm like a duck
paddling, paddling, paddling.
Scott Stossel
#17. Women tend to have recognition and peer group support - recognition from friends and family that this has to be a big issue in their lives. They're more comfortable expressing the need for support and receiving it.
James Levine
#18. Societal peer pressure to conform runs strong, but as more of us continue to think and act for ourselves, rather than be under the influence of group-think, we begin to make more effective choices.
Evita Ochel
#19. The idea of peer critique, of talking about each other's art - I just found it so useless.
Win Butler
#20. I tend to make movies about my peer group. I couldn't see myself now going back and making a movie about a bunch of college kids, necessarily. I kind of always operate in the things I'm observing around me, whether it's friends having babies now in my life or what have you.
Todd Phillips
#21. The currencies of science are discoveries and ideas; the rewards are the excitement of going where nobody has been before and, if one is inclined to such things, the kudos of peer acclaim, plus funds to do more research.
John Sulston
#22. Each individual should be able to make good decisions without peer preassure.
Ana Monnar
#23. People just don't realize how much peer pressure, the desire for peer acclamation, influences them.
Frederica Mathewes-Green
#24. I go behind the telescope, peer into the eyepiece, and all the stars crash down on my head. It's like taking a shower in the cosmos. I gasp.
Jandy Nelson
#25. Peer over the edge
Can you see me?
Rivulets flow from your eyes
Paint runs from your mouth
Like a waterfall
And your lungs crystalize
Owl City
#26. I started working with brain sensing tech in labs over a decade ago and was immediately fascinated by the potential to help people peer into the workings and behaviors of their own minds.
Ariel Garten
#27. It's not the substance of what you make known to me that's beautiful; it's the opening of your heart. It is the 'yes' in your heart to be mine. The fact that you are revealing the secrets and letting me peer into your heart
that is in itself the beautiful part.
Dana Candler
#28. For a long time I felt like I was fighting my age, like I was constantly trying to prove to people that I was a savvy peer, and I felt them viewing me as a kid. I was a cocky kid, and I felt like I was an adult at, like, 9, you know? I think that's because my parents always treated me as an adult.
Ezra Miller
#29. In general, science journalism concerns itself with what has been published in a handful of peer-reviewed journals - Nature, Cell, The New England Journal of Medicine - which set the agenda.
Michael Pollan
#30. The web of trust is built at eye level, peer to peer.
Jeff Jarvis
#31. We must first peer into the darkness, feel strangled and entombed in the hopelessness of living without God, before we are ready to feel the presence of His living light.
Abraham Joshua Heschel
#32. Time is a keyhole, he thought as he looked up at the stars. Yes, I think so. We sometimes bend and peer through it. And the wind we feel on our cheeks when we do - the wind that blows through the keyhole- is the breath of all the living universe.
Stephen King
#33. God's guidance is almost always step-by-step; He does not show us our life's plan all at once. Sometimes our anxiousness to know the will of God comes from a desire to peer over God's shoulder to see what His plan is. What we need to do is learn to trust Him to guide us.
Jerry Bridges
#34. Many Christians give in to various temptations through peer pressure and find themselves surrendering to worldly passions, justifying pleasures the world offers.
Billy Graham
#35. 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. When students themselves are in charge of projects that they care about, peer pressure can become a powerful force for high standards.
Sandy Berger
#36. Books had been invented to salve human loneliness, and they were friends without peer, friends who never sneered or flinched or laughed behind a man's back. Books revealed their treasures to all who took the effort to seek.
Mary Jo Putney
#37. The worst problem of peer reviewing is its time consuming nature.
Eraldo Banovac
#38. The best prophets lead you up to the curtain and let you peer through for yourself.
Frank Herbert
#39. If I could peer into a crystal ball, I imagine I would see an ever-growing list of canceled tours, concerts, and appearances in her future, for fear of leaving her husband home alone.
Brandi Glanville
#40. If personal space is vital to creativity, so is freedom from "peer pressure".
Susan Cain
#41. Adapt and adopt the peer-to-peer and open source models to wider implementation in organisations
Miguel Reynolds Brandao
#42. Peer pressure is when you decide to lob a few warheads at this week's Nazi because CNN told you to.
Nick Cole
#43. Munro stood in the doorway, watching the two faeries peer into his fridge as thought it was the strangest thing they'd ever seen.
India Drummond
#44. When I was a child people simply looked about them and were moderately happy; today they peer beyond the seven seas, bury themselves waist deep in tidings, and by and large what they see and hear makes them unutterably sad.
E.B. White
#45. Peer into your loving dog's eyes and you will have seen true trust and loyalty .
Jeff Tikari
#46. Getting high off life is more than enough, and peer pressure ain't peer pressure when a boy is tough.
Kool Moe Dee
#47. The pressure to conform to an authority figure or peer group can cause people to behave in shocking ways.
Mike Lofgren
#48. Most conduct is guided by norms rather than by laws. Norms are voluntary and are effective because they are enforced by peer pressure.
Paul Collier
#49. He felt like a man who, after straining his eyes to peer into the remote distance, finds what he was seeking at his very feet. All his life he had been looking over the heads of those around him, while he had only to look before him without straining his eyes. p 1320
Leo Tolstoy
#50. We do not raise our children alone ... Our children are also raised by every peer, institution, and family with which they come in contact. Yet parents today expect to be blamed for whatever results occur with their children, and they expect to do their parenting alone.
Richard Louv
#51. And perhaps that in itself was the great secret---not just for legacy, but also for life. You could carry a story inside you and hold it up to the light when you needed it the most. You could peer through it, like a frame, and see how it changed your view when you looked out onto the world.
Roshani Chokshi
#52. I'm Shahar Peer. I came here to play tennis. I know I'm from Israel and I'm proud of my country and that playing tennis is what I'm going to do tomorrow.
Shahar Pe'er
#53. Learning by doing, peer-to-peer teaching, and computer simulation are all part of the same equation.
Nicholas Negroponte
#54. I love science. I hate supposition, superstition, exaggeration and falsified data. Show me the research, show me the results, show me the conclusions - and then show me some qualified peer reviews of all that.
Claire Scovell LaZebnik
#55. We know that we are often judged by the company we keep. We know how influential classmates, friends, and other peer groups can be. If any of our companions are prone to be unrighteous in their living, we are better off seeking new associations immediately.
Joseph B. Wirthlin
#56. He had a hard time fitting in. A sense of isolation left over from all those years. Not quite peer pressure. More like peer rejection.
Jamie Ford
#57. The trouble with institutional investors is that their performance is usually measured relative to their peer group and not by an absolute yardstick. This makes them trend followers by definition.
George Soros
#58. A child who's got the habit will start reading under the covers with a flashlight," she said. "If the parents are smart, they'll forbid the child to do this, and thereby encourage her. Otherwise she'll find a peer who also has the habit, and the two of them will keep it a secret between them.
Jonathan Franzen
#59. When he breathed he truly was Australia's greatest white elder and friend without peer to the original Australians.
Noel Pearson
#60. As a reader I want to be present and entertained. I don't want to be taught lessons, and I don't want to be spoken down to. I want to be treated as a peer and to be made to feel welcome.
Patrick DeWitt
#61. A book is a mirror; if an ass peers into it, you can't expect an apostle to peer out.
E. M. Forster
#62. Urge to come to terms with the "Outside," by absorbing, interiorizing it. I won't come out, you must come in to me. Into my womb-garden where I peer out. Where I can construct a universe within the skull, to rival the real.
Jim Morrison
#63. What is the point in consensual opinion?" Bryant asked, exasperated. "If you only discuss matters of interest with like-minded individuals you never learn anything new. Why would I want a peer group on Twitter? They're just going to agree with me.
Christopher Fowler
#64. Peer pressure is nothing compared
to ancestor pressure.
Pickles
#65. Step forward again, hold the shield steady. Peer over the top. Fear is screaming somewhere deep. Ignore it. You can smell the shit now. Shit and blood, the stench of glory. The enemy is more frightened. Kill them. Keep the shields steady. Kill.
Bernard Cornwell
#66. It was the way most people lived their lives, on upper levels, not stopping to peer underneath. And
Yaa Gyasi
#67. King as thou art, free speech at least is mine. To make reply; in this I am thy peer.
Sophocles
#68. The farther we peer into space, the more we realize that the nature of the universe cannot be understood fully by inspecting spiral galaxies or watching distant supernovas. It lies deeper. It involves our very selves.
Robert Lanza
#69. I want him."
"I'm sorry?" I peer at her, flicking my mobile open out of habit.
"The man I just met. I felt it, right here. The sizzle." She presses her concave stomach. "I want to dance with him.
Sophie Kinsella
#70. If I may take the liberty to speak for science at least, today his name and his prizes are without a peer in the world. He not only elevates science but he influences it as well.
Melvin Calvin
#71. I think every artist subconsciously wants to evolve themselves. Sometimes they get stuck in ruts because of pop culture, peer pressure, stuff like that. But what excites me most is exploring my own musical insights and expanding upon them.
Steve Vai
#72. No matter how much care we put into hiding our passions under the appearances of devotion and honor, they can always be seen to peer out through these covers.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#73. In print news your job is to know things about others, you peer out at the world through an arrow slit. In telepresence you _are known_. If I'd still been writing for a newspaper--if there still were newspapers-- I could have forgotten...
Raphael Carter
#74. You are destined to become the peer of those you most respect because the greatness you perceive in them is your own.
Alan Cohen
#75. I'm not going to relate to an athlete as a peer.
Lisa Guerrero
#76. A lot of my peer group think I'm an eccentric bisexual, like I may even have an ammonia-filled tentacle somewhere on my body. That's okay.
Robert Downey Jr.
#77. Fear not. For fear itself is fed by fear, and all fears pass. Did no one tell you so? Come take my hand, my friend, and we will peer into this fear's abyss. And jump! And know.
Felix Dennis
#78. Any media-brainwashed automaton can summon the insipid courage to peer into the horrifying abyss. But it takes a freaking genius with a fearless imagination to peer into the maw of happiness.
Rob Brezsny
#79. I just felt being part of my peer group so strongly. I was immersed in teen culture, but not taken in by it.
S.E. Hinton
#80. During my 8 years as chairman, I had the privilege to peer into the future to see dynamic citizen astronauts returning to and from the heavens which we can expect in the future.
Dana Rohrabacher
#81. A real friend is someone who does n0t give you expectation about delivering on some kind of peer group pressure.
Tony Orlando
#82. We are all basically the same human beings, who seek happiness and try to avoid suffering. Everybody is my peer group. Your feeling "I am of no value" is wrong. Absolutely wrong.
Dalai Lama
#83. We peer so suspiciously at each other that we cannot see that we Canadians are standing on the mountaintop of human wealth, freedom and privilege.
Pierre Trudeau
#84. This isn't the medieval era, my lord. I'll be damned if I need to put on a dog-and-pony show with a peer as part of a business deal."
"Speaking as the other half of the dog-and-pony show," Westcliff said sardonically, "I'm not fond of the idea either.
Lisa Kleypas
#85. Most people's lives are a direct reflection of their peer groups.
Tony Robbins
#86. The task of the right eye is to peer into the telescope, while the left eye peers into the microscope.
Leonora Carrington
#87. At the end of the day in business, it's not about peer review and getting into a scientific journal. You either increase sales, or not.
Guy Kawasaki
#88. I am not a reluctant peer but a persistent commoner
Tony Benn
#89. Every man should stand under the blue and stars, under the infinite flag of nature, the peer of every other man.
Robert G. Ingersoll
#90. never held a book before and reverently turned the pages, looking at the incomprehensible print and wishing she could understand the meaning of the words.
Henri drifted close to peer over her arm. "What's that?"
"A book. There be stories in here.
Debra Holland
#91. Is there a parson much bemused in beer, a maudlin poetess, a rhyming peer, a clerk foredoom'd his father's soul to cross, who pens a stanza when he should engross?
Alexander Pope
#92. In England, the sovereignty resides exclusively in the person or individual who is king. All Englishmen are his subjects. And the highest peer in the realm ... has no share in the sovereignty.
Roger B. Taney
#93. My peer network is international. It's people all over the place who I know, and respect their work. It's not really delineated by traditional nationalist ideas.
Tim Hecker
#94. For if any man thinks that he is alone is wise--that in speech, or in mind, he hath no peer--such a soul, when laid open, is ever found empty.
Sophocles
#95. People's lives are a direct reflection of the expectations of their peer group.
Joy Lincoln
#96. He, in his love songs, and his tales in prose,
was without peer
and if fools claim Limoges
produced a better, there are always those
who measure worth by popular acclaim,
ignoring principles of art and reason
to base their judgments on the author's name.
Dante Alighieri
#97. At the end of the day, just know that God made you, so you can be your own individual, and don't let people give you that peer pressure.
Wyclef Jean
#98. Ready or not, I peer into your soul and dive deep... Your eyes don't like what I see. You don't want to be me. So you curse and smash the mirror which gets you what? A bit of blood , a handful of glass splinters, another source of pain.
Nikki Grimes
#99. Even when EPA subjects its science to peer review, the agency often stacks the deck of supposedly independent advisory panels by including members who are EPA grant recipients.
Ralph Hall
#100. Social questions are too sectional, too topical, too temporal to move a man to the mighty effort which is needed to produce greatpoetry. Prison reform may nerve Charles Reade to produce an effective and businesslike prose melodrama; but it could never produce Hamlet, Faust, or Peer Gynt.
George Bernard Shaw
