Parried Quotes

#1. Doss dear," said Cousin Georgiana mournfully, "some day you will discover that blood is thicker than water."
"Of course it is. But who wants water to be thick?" parried Valancy.

L.M. Montgomery

#2. Her own questions about her mother could not have been parried, as she grew up, without the complete shrouding of the past which would have made a painful barrier between their minds.

George Eliot

#3. Have you always been a swordsman?' I asked.
He parried my overhead cut. 'I've been many things.

Rick Riordan

#4. Who says they're all criminals? -he parried- some might actually be innocent. others may need someone to explain them. there are reasons why we become the way we are, which often aren't apparent on the surface of our lives

Richard North Patterson

#5. With care, and skill, and cunning art, She parried Time's malicious dart, And kept the years at bay, Till passion entered in her heart and aged her in a day!

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

#6. One charming characteristic of many flank attacks I could mention is that they do not very often lead to simplification: if the attack is parried, there usually are still opportunities left for initiating action in another sector.

Bent Larsen

#7. Many times what cannot be refuted by arguments can be parried by laughter.

Desiderius Erasmus

#8. Peter was a superb swordsman, and parried with dazzling rapidity; ever and anon he followed up a feint with a lunge that got past his foe's defense, but his shorter reach stood him in ill stead, and he could not drive the steel home

J.M. Barrie

#9. I think people think their incomes have been flat lining for a long period of time. They feel that the next generation's opportunities are not going to be improvement. So and I also think that social media then allows insurgent movements to gain scale at speed.

Tony Blair

#10. Over deliver in all you do and soon you will be rewarded for the extra effort.

Zig Ziglar

#11. There is nothing that does not get easier through cultivation. The buddhas of the past started out as ordinary beings. They were not buddhas in the beginning. The path to buddhahood is traversed only through gradually developing more and more courage and DETERMINATION -then it is attained.

Dalai Lama

#12. I wanted to give men an accessible line of clothing that's comfortable yet stylish and will help them to present the best version of themselves. It's easy - when you look good, you feel good.

Cam Newton

#13. I wish I played an instrument, but I could never decide which one, and I ended up playing nothing.

Nastassja Kinski

#14. I always get asked how fast I can run and the answer is 'faster.'

Mirinda Carfrae

#15. The L.A. Times, it's an anti-Christian publication, as is the New York Times.

Mel Gibson

#16. I don't want this life to end," said Alexander. "The good, the bad, the everything, the very old, to ever end.

Paullina Simons