Peter

Famous quotes containing the word peter:

“In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.”
—Laurence J. Peter (1919–1990)

“Travel is like adultery: one is always tempted to be unfaithful to one’s own country. To have imagination is inevitably to be dissatisfied with where you live. There is in men, as Peter Quennell said, “a centrifugal tendency.” In our wanderlust, we are lovers looking for consummation.”
—Anatole Broyard (1910–1990)

“I perceive that God is no respecter of persons.”
—Bible: New Testament Acts, 10:34.

Said by Peter at Caesarea; similar wording is found in Romans 2:11: “There is no respect of persons with God.”