Peter Quotes - Page 4

• If Peter was nine, and a new boy came to St. Norbert’s Home for Wayward Boys who said he was ten, why, then, Peter would declare himself eleven. Also, he could spit the farthest. That made him the undisputed leader.

  Dave Barry

  Home, Boys, Leader

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• Peter would probably throw a party if I stopped breathing.' 'Well,' he says, 'I would only go if there was cake.

  Veronica Roth

  Party, Breathing, Cake

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• If any man would come after me, let him deny himself." The disciple must say to himself the same words Peter said of Christ when he denied him: "I know not this man." Self-denial is never just a series of isolated acts of mortification or asceticism. It is not suicide, for there is an element of self-will even in that. To deny oneself is to be aware only of Christ and no more of self, to see only him who goes before and no more the road which is too hard for us. Once more, all that self denial can say is: "He leads the way, keep close to him.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Suicide, Men, Self

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2012). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.88, Simon and Schuster

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• I even think the commercial element of new American directors is really fertile right now. There are a lot of filmmakers with very particular visions, like Sofia Coppola and Wes Anderson and P.T. Anderson and Alexander Payne and Peter Sollett and Harmony Korine and Vincent Gallo. At least they're making films that they choose to make, and they're on their own. That's positive to me. This is not a dead period for American cinema at all.

  Jim Jarmusch

  Thinking, Vision, Directors

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• She wanted to cry, but she did not want Peter to see her cry, and she especially did not want Teacher, with her flowing hair, to see her cry.

  Dave Barry

  Teacher, Hair, Want

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• Peter, you're twelve years old. I'm ten. They have a word for people our age. They call us children and they treat us like mice.

  Orson Scott Card

  Children, Years, People

  Orson Scott Card (2013). “The Ender Quintet”, p.109, Macmillan

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• What was there to be gained by fighting the most evil wizard who has ever existed?" said Black, with a terrible fury in his face. "Only innocent lives, Peter!" "You don't understand!" whined Pettigrew. "He would have killed me, Sirius!" "THEN YOU SHOULD HAVE DIED!" roared Black. "DIED RATHER THAN BETRAY YOUR FRIENDS, AS WE WOULD HAVE DONE FOR YOU!

  J. K. Rowling

  Fighting, Should Have, Evil

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

  J. K. Rowling

  Rats, Made, Boast

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• Well," Peter Van Houten said, extending his hand to me. "It is at any rate a pleasure to meet such ontologically improbable creatures." I shook his swollen hand, and then he shook hands with Augustus. I was wondering what ontologically meant. Regardless, I liked it. Augustus and I were together in the Improbable Creatures Club: us and duck-billed platypuses.

  John Green

  Hands, Ducks, Together

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.105, Penguin

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• Sometimes I think about the sly, flickering line that separates being spared from being rejected. Sometimes I think of the ancient gods who demanded that their sacrifices be fearless and without blemish, and I wonder whether, whoever or whatever took Peter and Jamie away, it decided I wasn't good enough.

  Tana French

  Sacrifice, Thinking, Fearless

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• Nic's going to be an old maid," Michael said, giggling. "What?" she snapped. "How do you even know what that means? You're like, four years old." "Mommy said it," Michael answered. Bernie coughed, nearly choking on her food as Peter and Xavier laughed into their napkins.

  Alexandra Adornetto

  Mean, Years, Maids

  Alexandra Adornetto (2010). “Halo”, p.285, Macmillan

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• If Peter Pan had been real, he would've gone mad and killed everyone in Neverland.

  Amanda Hocking

  Real, Mad, Gone

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• There was only one guy in the whole Bible Jesus ever personally promised a place with him in Paradise. Not Peter, not Paul, not any of those guys. He was a convicted thief, being executed. So don't knock the guys on death row. Maybe they know something you don't.

  Neil Gaiman

  Jesus, Guy, Thieves

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• My name's Peter. Can I play too?

  Brom

  Play, Names

  Brom (2009). “The Child Thief: A Novel”, p.27, Harper Collins

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• Feeling that Peter was on his way back, the Neverland had again woke into life. We ought to use the pluperfect and say wakened, but woke is better and was always used by Peter.

  James M. Barrie

  Feelings, Use, Way

  James M. Barrie (2013). “Peter Pan (Peter and Wendy) (Annotated Edition)”, p.53, Jazzybee Verlag

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• But where do you live mostly now?" With the lost boys." Who are they?" They are the children who fall out of their perambulators when the nurse is looking the other way. If they are not claimed in seven days they are sent far away to the Neverland to defray expanses. I'm captain." What fun it must be!" Yes," said cunning Peter, "but we are rather lonely. You see we have no female companionship." Are none of the others girls?" Oh no; girls, you know, are much too clever to fall out of their prams.

  James M. Barrie

  Girl, Lonely, Children

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• it was all your genes that made us geniuses, mom. said peter. we sure didn't get any from dad. i heard that. father said, not looking up from the news that was being displayed on the table while he ate it would've been wasted if you hadn't

  Orson Scott Card

  Mom, Dad, Father

  Orson Scott Card (2013). “Ender's Game Boxed Set II: Ender's Game, Ender in Exile, Speak for the Dead”, p.27, Macmillan

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• He looked around when he heard a window-rattling roar. "Earthquake? Volcano? Nuclear war?" "Beaver," Peter told him. "I don't care if it is Alaska, you don't have beavers big enough to sound like that.

  Nora Roberts

  War, Alaska, Volcanoes

  Nora Roberts (2004). “Northern Lights”, p.45, Penguin

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• I don't know why you're making the poor girl play with you," Peter said. "You're going to completely slaughter her." "Well, I am the greatest Guitar Hero player of all time," Jack said.

  Amanda Hocking

  Girl, Hero, Player

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• Peter is ... adjusting. He's back in school, and he's doing quite well. I wish you could find it in your heart to forgive him." "I've got this funny resentful streak about people who try to kill me.

  Josh Lanyon

  Heart, School, People

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• She reflected she must be completely besotted about Peter, if his laughter could hallow an aspidistra.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Laughter, Ifs, Lord Peter Wimsey

  "Busman's Honeymoon".

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• It's disquieting to reflect that one's dreams never symbolize one's real wishes, but always something Much Worse... If I really wanted to be passionately embraced by Peter, I should dream of dentists or gardening. I wonder what unspeakable depths of awfulness can only be expressed by the polite symbol of Peter's embraces?

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Dream, Real, Wish

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• I like to receive money for my work. But I can pass that up this time. I like to have people know my work is done by me. But I can pass that up. I like to have tenants made happy by my work. But that doesn't matter too much. The only thing that matters, my goal, my reward, my beginning, my end is the work itself. My work done my way. Peter, there's nothing in the world that you can offer me, except this. Offer me this and you can have anything I've got to give. My work done my way. A private, personal, selfish, egotistical motivation. That's the only way I function. That's all I am.

  Ayn Rand

  Motivation, Selfish, People

  Ayn Rand (2005). “The Fountainhead”, p.553, Penguin

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• And Peter laughed, and when he did, all the Devils grinned, because Peter's laugh was a most contagious thing.

  Brom

  Laughing, Devil, Contagious

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• Peter's face clouded. "Everything comes at a price. Or have you not learned that yet?

  Brom

  Faces, Clouded

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