Order Quote by Edward W. Robertson

“There's a problem with the hierarchical orientation, though. When the numbers get too big, the thing breaks down. A pecking order can hold only…

— Steven Pressfield

“ In many instances, a preoccupation with appearances--unrealistic social expectations, impossible standards--can be the single largest barrier to a satisfying social life. When I…

— Jonathan Berent

“In fact, we owe the expression “pecking order” to studies of the social relations among chickens by the Norwegian zoologist Thorleif Schjelderup-Ebbe, who found…

— Jennifer Ackerman

“A substance so far beyond their ken that they might have been carrion birds pecking at the eyes of god.”

— Laini Taylor

“Yeah, well, love doesn't always beat out the fear." "Sometimes it does," he replied with a smile, pecking her on the nose. "Christ, Driggs.…

— Gina Damico

“A strange idea was pecking at his brain like a chicken in the egg, and very, very much absorbed him.”

— Dostoyevsky, Fyodor

“No sooner were they drowsing pleasantly than the Magenpies would start the food call, one doing the hiccoughs while the other did the piping.…

— Gerald Durrell

Even the woodpecker owes his success to the fact that he uses his head and keeps pecking away until he finishes the job he…

— Coleman Cox

When God put everybody here, I don't think that he had a master plan of a pecking order. That's not what you see in…

— Corey Feldman

“In science's pecking order, evolutionary biology lurks somewhere near the bottom, far closer to phrenology than to physics. For evolutionary biology is a historical…

— Jerry A. Coyne

“Most people measure themselves against someone or something and then fight their inner doubts to believe they, too, have what it takes to do…

— Stephan Bauman

“If we are not apt to steer our life and engineer our individuality, we become preys of the pecking order or panting cardboard characters…

— Erik Pevernagie