M. Scott Peck Quotes

In thinking about miracles, I believe that our frame of reference has been too dramatic. We have been looking for the burning bush, the parting of the sea, the bellowing voice from heaven. Instead we should be looking at the ordinary day-to-day events in our lives for evidence of the miraculous, maintaining at the same time a scientific orientation.

M. Scott Peck

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I began going to juvenile prisons. And some of these kids face some very, very tough lives. How do they handle these lives? Do they even know that if their life is bad, that they're still OK? Do they know that? Do they know that someone is thinking the same way that they're thinking?

Walter Dean Myers
- Life
- Thinking
- Kids
Every time you make a guess of what a judge is going to do... you're wrong, so I try to stay away from that.

Ted Olson
- Time
- You
- Judge
If you're having a down time at school and people are bullying you, they don't know you. They don't have the right to have an opinion on you.

Maisie Williams
- People
- Time
- School
You sit at your computer for hours, then slave away at your job that you may or may not like. You don't know how to explain to them that the time when you feel alive or present is when you are writing.

Karen Bender
- Time
- Writing
- May
Age puzzles me. I thought it was a quiet time. My seventies were interesting and fairly serene, but my eighties are passionate. I grow more intense as I age.

Florida Scott-Maxwell
- Time
- Age
- Interesting
I have nothing maternal in me, and men want to be mothered a lot of the time.

Karen Armstrong
- Time
- Men
- Want