Top 31 Parris Quotes: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Parris

#1. I was speechless. Elodie Parris, defending me? Maybe in all this chaos, hell actually had frozen over.

#2. The archives recall not one single incriminating incident, not one drunken escapade, not one reported affair, not one spat with a team-mate or reporter - As Matthew Parris wondered of Barack Obama in these pages recently, is he human?

Michael Atherton

#3. Charleston, South Carolina, is about a 90-minute drive northwest of Beaufort and Parris Island. It is an old city reborn with new charm and an influx of snowbirds from the North attracted by its ease, comfort and accessibility.

Mike Barnicle

#4. Parris said IAFIS makes fifty thousand fingerprint comparisons a day with a 95 percent accuracy rate.

Sheila Johnson

#5. No," I said simply. "I hate no one. I want only to be left in peace to understand the mysteries of the universe in my own way.

S.J. Parris

#6. Faith and politics are now one and the same," he went on. "Perhaps it was always so, but it seems to have reached new extremes in our troubled century, do you not think? A man's religion tells me where his political loyalties lie, far more than his place of birth or his language.

S.J. Parris

#7. I do not believe that any book should be denied to the man who possesses the wisdom to understand it, Bruno, but that does not mean I am confused about where truth lies.

S.J. Parris

#8. My name is Patricia Lauren Bordeaux, and I, like my creator before me, am a very lonely vampire.

S.C. Parris

#9. I am not some preaching farmer with a book under my arm; I am a graduate of Harvard College.

Samuel Parris

#10. felt increasingly sure that God, whatever form He took, had not created us to kill and torture one another over the name we give Him.

S.J. Parris

#11. If the universe is infinite, as I believe, then it must surely contain an infinite number of possibilities that we have not yet imagined or attempted to harness ...

S.J. Parris

#12. It is strange the way that someone who wants to find you guilty can start to make you believe in your own guilt, even when you know you are innocent. I was afraid I would condemn myself my mistake.

S.J. Parris

#13. Nothing corrupts a politician quite as much as friendship. Good politicians don't bribe; they make us like them.

Matthew Parris

#14. Not since the Depression has the state been this dry, have our rivers been this low, our water table this low, and our reservoirs this low.

Parris Glendening

#15. But they argued as lawyers do, they twisted every answer I gave until it sounded like the opposite meaning, and I became so confused and afraid I found myself agreeing to statements that I knew were not true.

S.J. Parris

#16. They've come to overthrow the court, sir!

Samuel Parris

#17. Bring on the fruitcakes, we want a fruitcake for an unlovable seat.

Matthew Parris

#18. If you design communities for automobiles, you get more automobiles. If you design them for people, you get walkable, livable communities.

Parris Glendening

#19. Being an MP feeds your vanity and starves your self- respect.

Matthew Parris

#20. Indeed cocktail parties are death as I am sure 99 per cent of DS colleagues would agree. Whoever it was who suggested an international treaty banning National Day receptions should be canonised.

S.J. Parris

#21. When you join the Parachute Regiment they send you on training and initiation exercises. One of the tasks is to accept and care for a pet white rabbit. The young squaddie has to feed, brush, stroke and comfort his rabbit for a week, and become attached to it. Then he has to shoot it.

Matthew Parris

#22. Removing Christian evangelism from the African equation may leave the continent at the mercy of a malign fusion of Nike, the witch doctor, the mobile phone and the machete.

Matthew Parris

#23. I am a mixture of contradictory elements. Equal parts earth and fire, melancholy and choler, I fear. But it is more that warmth and blue skies stir the blood, do you not think?

S.J. Parris

#24. Make no excuses for the devils that will not excuse you of their burdens, Miss Crane. - Darien Nicodemeus; Chapter Sixteen - The Giant's Return

S.C. Parris

#25. But this girl had already suffered violence at the hands of a man; whatever she may have been in life, our cutting and probing in the name of scientific enquiry seemed like a further violation.

S.J. Parris

#26. Westley stared at him carefully. "Victor ... I understand how you must feel but the rules Dracula upheld - "
"Were the same very rules that allowed the Dark World to fall," he finished coldly.

S.C. Parris