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With the poetry of plain speaking, Shannon Hitchcock recreates the daily drama of a vanished world.
— Richard Peck
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[A young adult novel] ends not with happily ever after, but at a new beginning, with the sense of a lot of life yet to be lived.
— Richard Peck
We are almost always less or more competent than we believe ourselves to be. The unconscious,however, knows who we really are.
— M. Scott Peck
Fiction isn't what 'was'. It's 'what if'?
— Richard Peck
Acting's not therapy, but it can be therapeutic.
— Josh Peck
One extends one's limits only by exceeding them.
— M. Scott Peck
I think that my mother, Frances Dorothy Peck, modeled her whole life on that of Scarlett O'Hara.
— Pat Conroy
Nirvana or lasting enlightenment or true spiritual growth can be achieved only through persistent exercise of real love.
— M. Scott Peck
Sleep on your stone pillow, and let the gulls peck out your eyes while the crabs feast on your flesh. You've feasted on enough of them, you owe them.
— George R R Martin
I guess if you want to know one single thing I'm about, it's that I'm against easy answers.
— M. Scott Peck
The feeling of being valuable - 'I am a valuable person'- is essential to mental health and is a cornerstone of self-discipline.
— M. Scott Peck
I stayed there until the fire died. So it would not have to die alone.
— Robert Newton Peck
With a camera like that you don't believe you're in the masterpiece business. It's enough to be able to peck at the world.
— Lee Friedlander
It just seems silly to me that something so right and simple has to be fought for at all.
— Gregory Peck
Aye, aye, that's the way wi' thee: thee allays makes a peck o' thy own words out o' a pint o' the Bible's
— George Eliot
Fame is a funny thing, like a secret, both are hard to keep.
— Richard Peck
A good writer writes with a camera, not a pen.
— Robert Newton Peck
There would be no work on this day. A day no pigs would die.
— Robert Newton Peck
As an actor, that's the best thing you can do, really take people along on a story and tell them something.
— Austin Peck
Oh, Papa. My heart's broke.
— Robert Newton Peck
The sky's a good place to look," he said. "And I got a notion it's a good place to go.
— Robert Newton Peck
Ah, to be a bird. To fly the skies, sing my song, and best of all occasionally peck someone's eyes out.
— George Carlin
I went into architecture a little as 'Peck's Bad Boy.' It allowed me to be a critic in a socially condoned way.
— James Polshek
A life of total dedication to the truth also means a life of willingness to be personally challenged.
— M. Scott Peck
Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.
— M. Scott Peck
I read because one life isn't enough.
— Richard Peck
Sickness begets chaos, which, through hard work and a touch of grace, leads to growth and resurrection.
— M. Scott Peck
When I read a good book, it's like traveling the world without ever leaving my chair.
— Richard Peck
He pulls the tape off Allegra's mouth. Grabs her BY THE HAIR and gives her a peck on the lips.
— Richard Kadrey
Never trust an ugly woman. She's got a grudge against the world,' said Grandma who was no oil painting herself.
— Richard Peck
Falling in love is not an extension of one's limits or boundaries; it is a partial and temporary collapse of them.
— M. Scott Peck
America's greatest sin is the refusal to delay gratification.
— M. Scott Peck
I define love thus: The will to extend one's self for the purpose of nurturing one's own or another's spiritual growth.
— M. Scott Peck
Laziness is love's opposite.
— M. Scott Peck
The act of loving is an act of self-evolution even when the purpose of the act is someone else's growth.
— M. Scott Peck
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Advertising has always been the Peck's Bad Boy of American business urging us to buy things we probably don't need and often can't afford.
— Andrew Hacker
Martin Wilson's What They Always Tell Us hears the voices of the young as they struggle toward adulthood ...
— Richard Peck
I don't think grandma's a very good influence on us.
— Richard Peck
Need is a weak word. has nothing to do with what people get. Ain't what you need that matters. It's what you do.
— Robert Newton Peck
no problem can be solved until an individual assumes the responsibility for solving it.
— M. Scott Peck
Teach us to number our days aright.
— M. Scott Peck
Balancing is a discipline precisely because the act of giving something up is painful.
— M. Scott Peck
I'm a novelist. I think fiction is important or I wouldn't be doing it, but most of it's bad.
— Dale Peck
The path of spiritual growth is a path of lifelong learning.
— M. Scott Peck
I lie in my darkened room. Scavenger birds peck at the oozing matter that leaks from my crushed skull.
— E. Lockhart
And I know that I and anyone else who is not mentally defective can solve any problem if we are willing to take the time.
— M. Scott Peck
In and through community lies the salvation of the world.
— M. Scott Peck
If I truly love another, I will obviously order my behavior in such a way as to contribute the utmost to his or her spiritual growth.
— M. Scott Peck
There is no virtue inherent in un-constructive suffering.
— M. Scott Peck
We thought he was weird. He thought we were weird. It was great. It was what multiculturalism ought to be" -Archer
— Richard Peck
For daws to peck at: I am not what I am.
— William Shakespeare
When everything is said and done, the only thing that really matters is the quality of the soul you build during the life you're given.
— Kayt C. Peck
Grandma, how old is she?""Oh I don't know." Grandma said. "You'd have to cut off her head and count the rings in her neck. — Richard Peck
Those things that hurt, instruct.
— M. Scott Peck
I'm not a do-gooder. It embarrassed me to be classified as a humanitarian. I simply take part in activities that I believe in.
— Gregory Peck
He is the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end.
— M. Scott Peck
When we avoid the legitimate suffering that results from dealing with problems, we also avoid the growth that problems demand from us.
— M. Scott Peck
But for the first time, I had a religious identity. I had come home. And so I called myself a Zen Buddhist at the age of 18.
— M. Scott Peck
I don't think I could stay interested for a couple of months in a character of mean motivation.
— Gregory Peck
I came out after safe sex was invented and I always practiced safe sex. Except for when I lost my virginity.
— Dale Peck
The denial of suffering is, in fact a better definition of illness than its acceptance.
— M. Scott Peck
Because someone stole Gregory Peck's star on Hollywood Blvd., I have hired a Brink's guard to protect my star!
— Rip Taylor
Examination of the world without is never as personally painful as examination of the world within.
— M. Scott Peck
We cannot solve life's problems except by solving them.
— M. Scott Peck
I'm just a geeky, goofy person.
— Austin Peck
The neurotic assumes too much responsibility; the person with a character disorder not enough.
— M. Scott Peck
But put two librarians' heads together, and mountains move.
— Richard Peck
I started reading the Bible. All of a sudden the words jumped off the page and became real.
— Austin Peck
You must have something in order to give it up.
— M. Scott Peck
Move out or grow in any dimension and pain as well as joy will be your reward. A full life will be full of pain.
— M. Scott Peck
One could have eaten a meal off the ground without overbrimming the proverbial peck of dirt. Mrs.
— L.M. Montgomery
My time was my responsibility. It was up to me and me alone to decide how I wanted to use and order my time.
— M. Scott Peck
Never miss a chance...to keep your mouth shut.
— Robert Newton Peck
