Frederica Mathewes-Green Quotes

People just don't realize how much peer pressure, the desire for peer acclamation, influences them.

Frederica Mathewes-Green

• People
• Desire

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• The natural world is often bleak, but the language devoted to it is as careful as needlepoint and prophetic as well.

  

  Edith Pearlman
  • World
  • Language
  • Natural

• We can't continue with a justice of vengeance. Peace will require us to accept a certain degree of impunity; it's inevitable.

  

  Ingrid Betancourt
  • Peace
  • Justice
  • Accept

• I'm old enough to remember the end of World War II. On Aug. 14, 1946, a year after the Japanese were defeated, most newspapers and magazines had single articles commemorating the end of the war.

  

  Harry Browne
  • World
  • Remember
  • War

• There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Invest
  • Horizon
  • Beyond

• I don't really set out to please anybody, and I don't think I ever have. I have occasionally been encouraged to try to write something specifically for the purpose of releasing it as a single to get radio play. Those are not my best songs, as a rule.

  

  Ian Anderson
  • Think
  • Single
  • Purpose

• By the time I got to Bournemouth Art College, I'd been so inspired by Sam Raimi and Robert Rodriguez and their tiny, no-budget films that I decided to do a feature-length version of 'Fistful Of Fingers.'

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Time
  • Art
  • College

• When I saw Wonder Woman being constantly put in positions where she'd get tied up with her own rope, or held hostage, even as a kid, my reaction was 'C'mon, she's too smart for that.'

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Woman
  • Wonder
  • Smart

• Facebook can be an accumulation of different intelligences. Ask a question, translated into many languages and somebody, somewhere in the world, will have an answer.

  

  Yuri Milner
  • World
  • Different
  • Question

• I spent a lot of time doing things other people wanted me to do, so I'm doing what I want to do now.

  

  Karl Malone
  • People
  • Time
  • Want

• Every DC or Marvel property is constantly getting reinvented because we love these characters. They're so iconic, and we want to watch them over and over again.

  

  D. J. Cotrona
  • Want
  • Characters
  • Watch

• I realised I'd been spoiled at Liverpool. We were used to winning. In Italy I grew up as a person. I didn't enjoy the football, mind. It was very defensive, but I became a better player because of the work I had to do around the box. Off the pitch, I learned about what to eat and what to drink to be successful, and I learned about life.

  

  Ian Rush
  • Life
  • Up
  • Work

• I learn my songs by ear.

  

  Kate Smith
  • Learn
  • Songs
  • Ear

• The cost of living is going up and the chance of living is going down.

  

  Flip Wilson
  • Up
  • Chance
  • Living

• The battle is all over except the 'shouting' when one knows what is wanted and has made up his mind to get it, whatever the price may be.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Up
  • Mind
  • May

• The fact that logic cannot satisfy us awakens an almost insatiable hunger for the irrational.

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • Logic
  • Fact
  • Hunger

• I genuinely want to do my best every day, and I genuinely want to enjoy life every day.

  

  Landon Donovan
  • Life
  • Day
  • Best

• I always would dream of making music videos. Whenever I make music, I always have a visual in my mind. I always see things.

  

  Dan Reynolds Imagine Dragons
  • Music
  • Mind
  • Dream

• Going back to my film education, I always have that voice in my head that's always screaming, 'Sell out!' And that's good: you want that, because it keeps you on your toes, and it's important to remember what's actually important.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Good
  • Important
  • Remember

• CBS fought very hard on this because it believed and believes that there's a principle at stake here. The principle is that Dan Rather doesn't work for the police, and that people that speak to Dan Rather understand that he's a journalist and not a police agent.

  

  Floyd Abrams
  • People
  • Work
  • Police

• In the first two episodes, before she becomes Queen, I could be a lot freer with my emotions, but as the series goes on, she develops an armour in order to cope with her circumstances. She has to be a sphinx, which must be so hard. Imagine never being able to shout, 'Shut up,' or cry, even in front of your own family.

  

  Claire Foy
  • Up
  • Family
  • She

• I love every type of candy. I love Skittles and Reeses. I love it all.

  

  Colton Haynes
  • Candy

• Progress is possible. I know because I've seen it in the lives of people across America who get knocked down and get right back up. And I know it from my own life.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• I try not to make it personal, and I don't care about partisan politics one way or the other.

  

  Larry Hogan
  • Care
  • Politics
  • Try

• People just don't realize how much peer pressure, the desire for peer acclamation, influences them.

  

  Frederica Mathewes-Green
  • People
  • Desire