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«I don't know who Peter Lorre is. Pathetic right? It shows you how completely gross and uncultured my generation is.»
Author: Christina Ricci (Actress) | Keywords: gross, peter, uncultured
«I was told I had to gain a lot of weight because Hobbits are very portly. Peter [Jackson] is forever suggesting I have more food. 'A little more food for Mr. Astin.»
Author: Sean Astin (Actor) | Keywords: Jackson, peter, portly, suggesting
«But when he had turned about and looked on his disciples, he rebuked Peter, saying, Get thee behind me, Satan: for thou savourest not the things that be of God, but the things that be of men.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: peter, rebuked
«But Peter took him up, saying, Stand up; I myself also am a man.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: peter
«But Peter rehearsed the matter from the beginning, and expounded it by order unto them, saying, / I was in the city of Joppa praying: and in a trance I saw a vision, A certain vessel descend, as it had been a great sheet, let down from heaven by four corners; and it came even to me: / Upon the which when I had fastened mine eyes, I considered, and saw fourfooted beasts of the earth, and wild beasts, and creeping things, and fowls of the air.»
«He saith unto them, But whom say ye that I am? / And Simon Peter answered and said, Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God.»
«Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead (1 Peter 1:3).»
«I'm sure you have some cosmic rationale, but here you are with your faith and your Peter Pan advice.»
«A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.»
«Christians are to be taught that the pope would and should wish to give of his own money, even though he had to sell the basilica of St. Peter, to many of those from whom certain hawkers of indulgences cajole money.»