Quotes About Peter

what was happening to the town seemed to some like an almost biblical set of afflictions.

No matter how serious the tone, literature offers pleasure in its construction as well as in its content

When Peter renounced the world he grew up in and the people he grew up with, I believe it was exactly as heroic as that of a person who, finding himself prone to violent seasickness, renounces yachting. Hell, Pete was hardly 'in the world' in the first place. That was just the problem. He knew more about 13th century Sufi Orders and the Ptolemaic Universe than the rivers and hills and sewers and mills in southwestern Washington.

Preston Nichols and Peter Moon's 1992 book The Montauk Project: Experiments in Time

I'm always the one with the activist friends. I've been an activist very little.

It's always an interesting sort of adventures that gets someone into a movie.

Why do we love to read the Scriptures daily? Because they speak to us of home. Why do we live differently from those around us? Because we remember that we are soon going home (1 Peter 4:1–7). Why

They live down on gallery two in the Chinese Sixteenth.' 'Don't you mean the Chinese Quarter?' said Peter. 'No. That would be a quarter of a gallery,' Festival explained. 'This is only a sixteenth.' She

Puzzled Peter ponders whilst prepping parsley and parsnips for people Peter poorly held preference.

I wrote about the Serbs, because no one was writing about them, even if I also think about the Croat and Muslim victims.

The fallacy in Peter's mind was this: he believed his relationship was dependent on his consistency in producing the qualities he thought had earned him the Lord's approval.

I'm a disciple of the Tao of Peter Parker, obviously

To live outcast from your own kind, laughed at and mocked by most mortals. Living in a hovel, barely scraping by. Spurning wealth and fame. Why do you do it?" "I'm a disciple of the Tao of Peter Parker, obviously

Maybe all of her strangeness, her curse, her always feeling like an outsider, had all existed so that she could belong here, with Peter.

From where I sat, Peter and Wendy were the two loneliest figures in the world. But Peter was somehow the lonelier of the two.

And just as Jesus prayed for Peter, now he prays for all Christians, so that no matter what spiritual problems they face, their faith will not fail:

The satirist shoots to kill while the humorist brings his prey back alive and eventually releases him again for another chance.

Dad loved movies and I grew up with British comedy. My ultimate favourite is Peter Sellers.

Jesus' prayers for Peter — and perhaps for Judas as well — express God's unfathomable respect for human freedom.

Jesus' prayer for Peter shows the same pattern in sharp relief. Satan partially got his way with Peter, sifting him like wheat. But in answer to Jesus' prayer, the sifting rid Peter of his least attractive qualities: blustery self-confidence, a chip on his shoulder, a propensity to violence.

I, as a fan, want to be winning but to entertain equally as much, too.

If you made a better rat than a human, it's not much to boast about, Peter.

It's a lot harder to write a story that's compelling about identity and sense of self without some villain in the room.

But Peter knew it wasn't empty. For one thing he'd left part of himself in it. Not a hand or a nose or a foot, thank God. But things that had no substance but fantastic weight. He'd left his hope there, and trust. He'd left his faith there too. What little he had, he'd lost.