M. Scott Peck Quotes

I believe it would be considerably healthier for us to dare to live without a reason for many things than with reasons that are simplistic.

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• I was raised to believe that New England is the best place on the planet.

  

  Abigail Johnson
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• I firmly believe that the Constitution is the most powerful challenge to illiberal tendencies. If the Constitution is followed in letter and spirit and if the laws are made in the spirit in which Constitution was made, liberties can indeed be protected.

  

  Palaniappan Chidambaram
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• Oh while I live, to be the ruler of life, not a slave, to meet life as a powerful conqueror, and nothing exterior to me will ever take command of me.

  

  Walt Whitman
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• I hate jeans for no reason.

  

  Park Chan-wook
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• I believe in absolute freedom of expression. Everyone has a right to offend and be offended.

  

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• Would you believe in what you believe in if you were the only one who believed it?

  

  Kanye West
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• I'm more of a 5 Live man. But I might listen to a bit of Coldplay or The Smiths.

  

  Gary Lineker
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  • Man
  • Listen

• I believe everyone should have healthcare. In all my correspondence - I've been saying for years - it's a right, not a privilege.

  

  Bart Stupak
  • Believe
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• I'm a registered, vetted gun owner, but that's because I live way out in the country, like way out in the middle of nowhere.

  

  Naomi Judd
  • Live
  • Country
  • Gun

• 'The View' was so much fun. So much fun because the audience was 85-percent fans that wanted to be there celebrating 'One Life to Live' and the other 15 percent were crew members from 'One Life to Live'. It was just really, really wonderful and the clips were wonderful.

  

  Kassie DePaiva
  • Life
  • Live
  • Fun

• I don't believe in regret.

  

  Sadie Jones
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• Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.

  

  Isaac Asimov
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• For a lot of people, Superman is and has always been America's hero. He stands for what we believe is the best within us: limitless strength tempered by compassion, that can bear adversity and emerge stronger on the other side. He stands for what we all feel we would like to be able to stand for, when standing is hardest.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • People
  • Believe
  • America

• We do not believe in immortality because we can prove it, but we try to prove it because we cannot help believing it.

  

  Harriet Martineau
  • Believe
  • Help
  • Try

• I was very lucky. Things happened, both bad and good, but I never got into real, deep trouble. But it wore me down. By the time I was 18, I was done. I didn't want to live the life any more. I needed to develop past the point that busking takes you to.

  

  Madeleine Peyroux
  • Life
  • Time
  • Good

• Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Believe
  • Faith
  • See

• I don't know what impression you might have of the way I live. I live in a quiet place. I do not live as a hermit, though other people would prefer it if I did.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • People
  • Live
  • Know

• Up to nineteen seventy six when I quit gymnastics I was very, disappointed because I didn't have anything which is, live with. I didn't have a friend so I didn't have a coach anymore.

  

  Olga Korbut
  • Up
  • Live
  • Friend

• My sister and I were born in San Francisco. When our parents died, we came down here to live with relatives.

  

  Freddy Fender
  • Live
  • Parents
  • Sister

• There is no Past, so long as Books shall live!

  

  Bill Vaughan
  • Long
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  • Book

• I remember looking through magazines or watching movies even just a couple of years ago and being like, 'I really want to be part of that,' but not realizing what that was.

  

  Leighton Meester
  • Remember
  • Couple

• You have no idea how humiliating it was, as a boy, to suddenly have all your clothes, your toys, snatched by the bailiff. I mean we were a middle-class family, it's not as if it was happening up and down the street. It made me ashamed, I felt dirty.

  

  John le Carre
  • Up
  • Family
  • Boy

• We want to uplift the culture of Filipino - our respect to our elders, how we pray before we eat and sleep. These are things the younger generations tend to forget because of our exposure to other cultures.

  

  Coco Martin
  • Culture
  • Respect
  • Sleep

• I believe it would be considerably healthier for us to dare to live without a reason for many things than with reasons that are simplistic.

  

  M. Scott Peck
  • Believe
  • Live
  • Reason