Peers Pressure Quotes

#1. There's one advantage to being 102. There's no peer pressure.

Dennis Wolfberg

#2. Don't forget this, too: Rumors aren't interested in the unsensational story; rumors don't care what's true.

John Irving

#3. With the possible exception of steampunk aficionados, many reasonable people must view my fascination with Victorian and Edwardian popular fiction - mysteries, fantasy, and adventure - as eccentric or merely antiquarian.

Michael Dirda

#4. I used to wonder how a man working for the saintly organization of the saintly Dr. King could find himself in such a sinful place. But I'm no saint although I'm a good Christian, and even the best Christians are more familiar with sinners than saints.

Rashad Harrison

#5. The photo shoot I always feel a bit embarrassed about because I don't really know what to do with myself, but they usually don't use a bad photo, so you can't worry too much. So my main concern is that I just look a bit more like myself.

Sophie Okonedo

#6. You make a choice to win and you win

Charlie Sheen

#7. Adversity does more than build character. It changes the way we see the world.

Michael R. French

#8. The pressure to conform to an authority figure or peer group can cause people to behave in shocking ways.

Mike Lofgren

#9. Victor was naturally quiet, but even more so under pressure, which gave his peers the distinct impression he knew what he was doing, even when he didn't.

Victoria Schwab

#10. I won't say 'never,' but I have no plans to write an eighth book.

J.K. Rowling

#11. As far as big egos, there are definitely guys out there that just think God only knows what about themselves.

Ethan Suplee

#12. The more varied the characters, the better, as far as I'm concerned.

Tim Roth

#13. Kids ... can get to the point where they feel peer pressure that isn't even there simply because of how they see themselves.

Walt Mueller

#14. Peer pressure is not a monolithic force that presses adolescents into the same mold ... Adolescents generally choose friend whose values, attitudes, tastes, and families are similar to their own. In short, good kids rarely go bad because of their friends.

Laurence Steinberg

#15. We must now brace ourselves for disquisitions on peer pressure, adolescent anomie, and rage.

Charles Krauthammer

#16. Good friends will allow you to be as innocent and free as a child when in private, and as wise and mature as an adult when in public.

Criss Jami

#17. Indians are very racist. It's deeply ingrained. But there is so much pressure by peer groups, magazines, billboards and TV adverts that perpetuate this idea that fair is the ideal.

Nandita Das

#18. There was nothing to see, nothing to distract me from succumbing to my fears, and the longer I kept my eyes shut, the more terribly I saw my fears wanted me to see.

Paul Auster

#19. I guess if you're not going to win the championship, you're better off taking the opportunity to win a Brickyard or a Daytona 500 than you are to make the Chase and then fizzle out.

Tony Stewart

#20. As long as we don't get turned into something that looks more like high school, more like everybody else and less like us, I'll be okay.

Adi Alsaid

#21. The rapprochement of peoples is only possible when differences of culture and outlook are respected and appreciated rather than feared and condemned, when the common bond of human dignity is recognized as the essential bond for a peaceful world.

J. William Fulbright

#22. My mind is like a little house,
My peers break into.
They rearrange my furniture,
And the cabinets rifle through.
They throw things out;
They put things in,
And erase the writing on the wall,
And by the time that they walk out,
It's not my mind at all.

Margo T. Rose