Peter Abelard Quotes

Are you not moved to tears and bitter compassion, when you behold the only Son of God seized by the most impious, dragged away, mocked, scourged, buffeted, spit upon, crowned with thorns, hung upon the infamous cross between two thieves, finally in such a horrible and execrable manner suffering death, for your salvation and that of the world?

Peter Abelard

• World
• God
• Death
• Suffering
• Son
• Tears
• Compassion
• Bitter

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• I was staying with my sister and messing around with the guitar every day for my own amusement. Then she took me around and introduced me to Muddy Waters, Jimmy Rogers, Little Walter, and the first time I saw that onstage, it inspired me to play. I thought that was the world.

  

  Otis Rush
  • Time
  • World
  • She

• Readers want to have the confidence that you understand the era in which the book is set, so for 'The Perfumer's Secret,' I needed to know everything about the First World War from a French perspective. I had to understand those people and that town in 1914.

  

  Fiona McIntosh
  • People
  • World
  • Book

• I have the most supportive parents and family in the entire world.

  

  Taylor Spreitler
  • World
  • Family
  • Parents

• Each atom of the Holy Spirit is intelligent, and like all other matter has solidity, form, and size, and occupies space.

  

  Orson Pratt
  • God
  • Space
  • Intelligent

• It's double talk and double standards. It's like, be honest, but don't be too honest. Look fresh-faced and young, but don't tell us how you got there. God forbid you have plastic surgery, even though we're telling you, 'Oh, you look old.' Be a career woman, but also, why aren't you having kids? Are you some kind of cold shrew?

  

  Rachel Bloom
  • God
  • Why
  • Kids

• People say, 'How does having kids change your writing? Do you see the world through their eyes?' No - you just become a faster songwriter... In the old days, you'd be like, 'Oh I'm gonna work on this song for a few days.'

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • People
  • World
  • Work

• I called Daley Thompson after the Games of '84, when he won. He'd had this phenomenal decathlon for nine events - and then he went out there and jogged the 1,500 meters and missed the world record by, like, three points.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • World
  • Events
  • Three

• I'm pretty content with what I have, but the one thing that I don't have is something like the iPod - but PC-based. I think that would be cool.

  

  Oren Peli
  • Think
  • Pretty
  • Cool

• The ultimate search engine would basically understand everything in the world, and it would always give you the right thing. And we're a long, long ways from that.

  

  Larry Page
  • World
  • Long
  • Search

• I want to work with the best coaches in the world.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • World
  • Work
  • Best

• I want simply to learn about the world and live freely.

  

  Laura Dekker
  • World
  • Live
  • Learn

• Death and I are head to head in a total collision, pure and mutual distaste.

  

  Harold Brodkey
  • Death
  • Head
  • Pure

• I grew up playing sports, football, basketball, baseball, everything, and acting was such a different environment and different world for me.

  

  Cam Gigandet
  • Up
  • World
  • Different

• I think this is really a defining moment for the Arab world. The problem is, it is all going to be about blood, sweat and tears. In certain countries it may be just sweat, and in some countries sweat and tears, and in some countries, as you can see, a lot of blood. I think initial instability is something that we are all extremely nervous of.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • World
  • May
  • Problem

• Fifty-seven countries in the world, a third of the United Nations, do not recognize Israel. In a way, I think North Korea has better international relations than Israel.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • World
  • Think
  • Better

• I like the outdoors and the natural world. Environmental issues.

  

  Mackenzie Crook
  • World
  • Like
  • Environmental

• I always felt that a scientist owes the world only one thing, and that is the truth as he sees it.

  

  Hans Eysenck
  • World
  • Truth
  • Always

• I like Ned Leeds. I love the character so much. He's a very new character in the MCU. I think he's a very fresh take on people in the superhero world. Some superheroes crack under pressure, and Ned Leeds, who is not a superhero, doesn't.

  

  Jacob Batalon
  • People
  • World
  • Love

• A lot of the hate mail I get is clearly misogynist. I am a proud liberal, feminist woman, and the hate mail I get about those three things is not about me.

  

  Janeane Garofalo
  • Hate
  • Proud
  • Feminist

• THERE is widespread agreement among economists that abuse of credit constitutes one of the chief unwholesome elements in business booms and is mainly responsible for the ensuing crash and depression.

  

  Benjamin Graham
  • Business
  • Depression
  • Abuse

• I don't tell anybody else what to wear. I would never dream of it.

  

  Daphne Guinness
  • Dream

• 'Armor On' explains why I needed armor in the first place. Sonically, you'll hear this battle of, 'I love you, no I don't. I love you, I hate you.' That's what you'll feel. You see the story kind of fight against itself.

  

  Dawn Angeliqué Richard
  • Why
  • Hate

• We may not be able to get certainty, but we can get probability, and half a loaf is better than no bread.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • May
  • Science
  • Food

• Are you not moved to tears and bitter compassion, when you behold the only Son of God seized by the most impious, dragged away, mocked, scourged, buffeted, spit upon, crowned with thorns, hung upon the infamous cross between two thieves, finally in such a horrible and execrable manner suffering death, for your salvation and that of the world?

  

  Peter Abelard
  • World
  • God
  • Death