Top 100 Parry Quotes
#1. But if you parry individuals points - a negative and defensive enterprise - you never step back and actively imagine a world in which a different system of ideas could be true - a positive act.
Deborah Tannen
#2. Go out and find a copy of 'The Shrinking Of Treehorn' and its sequel, 'Treehorn's Treasure.' Written by Florence Parry Heide and illustrated by the great Edward Gorey, master of the gothic and the macabre, these books are small masterpieces.
Chris Riddell
#3. It was a well-known fact that keeping track of time was not Parry Pretty's forte ... If time were Parry's pet, it would have died tied to a tree somewhere out back long ago.
S.J. Musgraves
#4. Be nobody's darling;
Be an outcast.
Take the contradictions
Of your life
And wrap around
You like a shawl,
To parry stones
To keep you warm.
Alice Walker
#5. It was the usual sort of academic battle: footnotes at ten paces, bolstered by snide articles in academic journals and lots of sniping about methodology, a thrust and parry of source and countersource. My sources had to be better.
Lauren Willig
#6. The point of a presidential campaign is to put the candidate through the ringer: to force him to get banged up by his opponents and the press, and to have to answer the difficult and uncomfortable questions, be investigated, and learn the thrust and parry of political swordplay.
Monica Crowley
#7. A physician can sometimes parry the scythe of death, but has no power over the sand in the hourglass.
Hester Lynch Piozzi
#8. I'd like to be a cross between Bruce Parry and Keith Floyd. Someone with a sense of adventure who truly loves food.
Arthur Potts Dawson
#9. How to carry it, simple thrust and parry. Try and avoid stabbing yourself with it," he added.
Michael Scott
#10. Then Royce's parry came a beat too late. The pale sword bit through the ringmail beneath his arm. The young Lord cried out in pain. Blood welled between the rings. It seemed red as fire where they touched the snow.
George R R Martin
#12. The reality is that every time we manipulate nature's rhythms, we create unintended consequences that then require us to make still further changes."
~ Glenn Aparicio Parry
Glenn Aparicio Parry
#13. Lieutenant Colonel Frederick Parry of 2nd Battalion the Cheshire Regiment at once requisitioned 'extra attractive women' from the cantonment magistrate at Amballa, arguing that he had only six women for 400 men.
Richard Holmes
#14. Parry Otter, the Chosen Boy Who - well - something of that sort..
J.K. Rowling
#15. Little minds try to defend everything at once, but sensible people look at the main point only; they parry the worst blows and stand a little hurt if thereby they avoid a greater one. If you try to hold everything, you hold nothing.
Frederick The Great
#16. Arms stop me from crumpling like a rag doll. Sometimes you don't need to talk things out. Sometimes, with the right person, things just need some time to percolate on their own, without the messy lunge and parry of discussion to hinder them.
Jonathan Tropper
#17. Define normal, Clara?"
I laughed when I tried to figure out the true definition.
"Normal is a function on a washing machine, Alex." I said seriously.
Kathryn Morgan Parry
#18. The ball was literally glued to the back of his foot - into the back of the net.
Alan Parry
#19. Truth has her sterner responsibilities sooner or later in store for those who have known anything about her.
Henry Parry Liddon
#20. A deliberate rejection of duty prescribed by already recognized truth cannot but destroy, or at least impair most seriously the clearness of our mental vision.
Henry Parry Liddon
#21. It's going to take a shoehorn to prise these two teams apart
Alan Parry
#22. Nothing is really lost by a life of sacrifice; everything is lost by failure to obey God's call.
Henry Parry Liddon
#24. The resurrection asserts a truth which is by no means always written legibly for all men on the face of nature. It tells us that the spiritual is higher than the material; that in this universe spirit counts for more than matter.
Henry Parry Liddon
#25. The truth is I suppose that a tour lays in a great stock of thought and spirits for the future; the fatigue and drawbacks of actual travelling are forgotten and a bright residuum remains.
Henry Parry Liddon
#26. A person can live a little bit broken ... Most of us do, I guess.
Rosanne Parry
#27. Poverty ... is already half-Christian by its very nature; it has everything to gain by a doctrine which makes so little of the present and the visible, and so much of the future and the unseen.
Henry Parry Liddon
#28. Later on, I read the end of the New Order described as being 'like sex without orgasm'. It was an unmomentous a historic moment as could be imagined - perfunctory, anti-climactic and unconvincing.
Richard Lloyd Parry
#29. That's referee Mike Reed's 50th booking of the season, which works out at an average of six a game.
Alan Parry
#30. As all true virtue, wherever found, is a ray of the life of the All-Holy; so all solid knowledge, all really accurate thought, descends from the Eternal Reason, and ought, when we apprehend it, to guide us upwards to Him.
Henry Parry Liddon
#31. We may rightly shrink from saying that any given individual is certainly so unfaithful to light and grace as to incur the eternal loss of God, we do know that many are so. God knows who they are.
Henry Parry Liddon
#32. The Greatest" is a bite-your-tongue-book. Ultimately a tragic tale it is also immensely uplifting and easily the best footballer biography I have ever read.
Mike Parry
#33. A win tonight is the minimum City must achieve
Alan Parry
#34. Why, he wondered, did he have to peddle his difference for their amusement, and yet at the same time temper it, suppress it, make it suitably benign?
Leslie Parry
#35. Zola Budd: so small, so waif-like, you literally can't see her. But there she is
Alan Parry
#37. Belle could be that way, too. Provoked, she lashed out, and abandoned, she broke. BACKSTAGE
Leslie Parry
#38. As unwieldy as those early computers were, there was an aura surrounding them. They were perceived as magical; their operators, as wizards of the modern age endowed with extraordinary scientific prowess.
Ross Parry
#39. We cannot think that God frightens us with threatenings which He really does not mean to carry out, without doing Himself obvious dishonour.
Henry Parry Liddon
#40. Nothing can expand without it growing
Mike Parry
#41. As a man passes into middle life, or beyond it, autumn, it has been said, whispers more to his soul than any other season of the natural year. It is not difficult to see why this should be.
Henry Parry Liddon
#42. If a religious principle is worth anything, it applies to a million of human beings as truly as to one; and the difficulty of insisting on its wider application does not furnish any proof that it ought not to be so applied.
Henry Parry Liddon
#43. Liberalism itself, is, on all matters connected with Church and Education, only a kind of corporate and "respectable" ungodliness.
Henry Parry Liddon
#44. Who can understand the covert world of the emotions, the secret life of the mind?
Roberta Parry
#45. Cricket is a team game where individuals inspire each other to achieve performances which surpass what might otherwise be beyond them.
Richard Lloyd Parry
#46. It is only Jesus Christ who has thrown light on life and immortality through the gospel; and because He has done so, and has enabled us by His atoning death and intercession to make the most of this discovery, His gospel is, for all who will, a power of God unto salvation.
Henry Parry Liddon
#47. Stories are one of the most powerful ways in which we communicate ideas among ourselves. They are the stuff that brings us together, the things we celebrate, the things we share with one another.
Robert Stephen Parry
#48. Practically speaking, there are for each one of us two supreme realities
God and the soul. The heavens and the earth will pass away. But the soul will still remain, face to face with God.
Henry Parry Liddon
#49. The life of man is made up of action and endurance; the life is fruitful in the ratio in which it is laid out in noble action or in patient perseverance.
Henry Parry Liddon
#50. The individualists' ideal was to live their lives as neither exploiter nor exploited - but how to do that in a society divided in this way? Their answer was for people to take direct action through the reprise individuelle, or in slang, la reprise au tas - taking back the whole heap.
Richard Parry
#51. I couldn't get to sleep at night without saying the Lord's Prayer because, when I was young, I felt I was touched by the hand of Jesus, and hated myself for challenging it.
Bruce Parry
#52. Lampard, as usual, arrived in the nick of time, but it wasn't quite soon enough.
Alan Parry
#53. Prayer is the act by which man, detaching himself from the embarrassments of sense and nature, ascends to the true level of his destiny.
Henry Parry Liddon
#54. There's a certain Englishness about the English game
Mike Parry
#55. Useful knowledge, practical kindness, and beneficent laws
these are not the Gospel; but, like philosophy, they are, or may be, its handmaids. They may make its task smooth and grateful; they may associate themselves with its victories, or they may prepare its way.
Henry Parry Liddon
#56. He kept fighting. If you didn't have something to live for, he reasoned, you'd die. Not just to live for, but to live toward. He thought for a little while he'd live for someone else - a
Leslie Parry
#57. The shot from Laws was precise but wide.
Alan Parry
#58. I've found that here in this city, the lights burn ever brighter, but they cast the darkest shadows I know.
Leslie Parry
#59. A few years hence and he will be beneath the sod; but those cliffs will stand, as now, facing the ocean, incessantly lashed by its waves, yet unshaken, immovable; and other eyes will gaze on them for their brief day of life, and then they, too, will close.
Henry Parry Liddon
#60. Villa will probably play a lot worse than this and lose.
Alan Parry
#61. Our children will be told what Israel has done.' graffiti on the Wall in Bethlehem, opposite Aida refugee camp, 2008
William Parry
#62. There isn't an injury known to man that Bryan Robson hasn't had.
Alan Parry
#63. Liverpool are currently halfway through an unbeaten twelve-match run
Alan Parry
#64. Life is precious and all too short. So I laugh, sing and dive into things heads first with the hope that I don't scrape my ass on the bottom. And when I do I break out the bandaids
K.L. Parry
#65. Her mother's private feelings, she would realize later (with no small amount of shame), were of no real concern to her. She only cared about what her mother gave to her and what she withheld.
Leslie Parry
#66. Stamford Bridge holds 42,000. So ten per cent of that would be about 4.1 thousand
Mike Parry
#67. There were streets named Mulberry and Orchard and Cherry, streets bright and tart, streets with a color and a taste.
Leslie Parry
#68. Even those we know best are strangers, whom we understand, if we ever do, intermittently.
Richard Lloyd Parry
#69. No light privilege is it to have a hand in building up the moral life of these new communities; no common honour surely to help to lay side by side with the foundations of their free political institutions the broad and deep foundations of the Church of God.
Henry Parry Liddon
#70. The solution to the mystery is always inferior to the mystery itself.
Glyn Parry
#71. The real difficulty with thousands in the present day is not that Christianity has been found wanting, but that it has never been seriously tried.
Henry Parry Liddon
#72. He had no chance of beating Schmeichel from there, but it was always worth a try.
Alan Parry
#73. How do I know that there is a God? In the same way that I know, on looking at the sand, when a man or beast has crossed the desert - by His footprints in the world around me.
Henry Parry Liddon
#74. He'll probably wake up having sleepless nights about that one.
Alan Parry
#75. Undergarments flapped wildly on the fire escapes above, soiled with sweat and blood: private stains, flying high over the city like crests on the flags of a ship.
Leslie Parry
#76. The history of the Church of Christ from the days of the Apostles has been a history of spiritual movements.
Henry Parry Liddon
#77. Cleland was the victim of his own downfall.
Alan Parry
#78. And Ritchie has now scored 11 goals, exactly double the number he scored last season
Alan Parry
#79. Making predictions is like throwing a dartboard at the fixture list
Mike Parry
#80. It awoke something in her, to see someone so kind and giving, so full-hearted, and yet so lost, so wretchedly bent on his own destruction. She had left home, ashamed of herself and the fury she'd caused, but now the prospect of love didn't seem like such a dangerous thing at all. He
Leslie Parry
#81. If I had to pick one tribe to go back and live with permanently - and I hate doing this, it's not a contest - it would be the people of Anuta, in the South Pacific. It's got white beaches, blue seas, good food and gentle, friendly people who have a wonderful philosophy of sharing. And it's warm.
Bruce Parry
#82. How different South Africa's cricketing achievements, and indeed the future of the country itself, might have been if racism had not denied Frank Roro the opportunity of batting with Bruce Mitchell in the Lord's sunshine.
Richard Lloyd Parry
#83. The great laws of the moral world do not vary, however different, under different dispensations, may be the authoritative enunciation of truth, or the means of propagating and defending it.
Henry Parry Liddon
#84. Like a predator about to devour the target.
Alan Parry
#85. They (Liverpool players) are passing the cup down the line like a new born baby. Although when they are back in the dressing room they will probably fill it with champagne, something you should never do to a baby.
Alan Parry
#86. If man looks within himself he must perceive two things: a law of right, and that which it condemns.
Henry Parry Liddon
#87. The past is what nourishes and sustains us. It is like going to work on a good breakfast.
Robert Stephen Parry
#88. No Legislature can really destroy a religious conviction, except by exterminating its holders. It is historically too late to do that, and we shall live to see the drowned Egyptians on the seashore even yet.
Henry Parry Liddon
#89. Again and again the Church of Christ has been all but engulfed, as men might have deemed, in the billows; again and again the storm has been calmed by the Master, Who had seemed for awhile to sleep.
Henry Parry Liddon
#90. The Church of the Apostles was a Church of the poor; of silver and gold it had none.
Henry Parry Liddon
#91. Let us think today of the prospect of sharing in a sublime and blessed existence such as is portrayed in the text of the Apocalypse before us, and let us ask ourselves whether it should or should not make any difference in our present state of being.
Henry Parry Liddon
#92. Augustine of Hippo used to say that, but for God's grace, he should have been capable of committing any crime; and it is when we feel this sincerely, that we are most likely to be really improving, and best able to give assistance to others without moral loss to ourselves.
Henry Parry Liddon
#93. Certainly, envy is no monopoly of the poor; it makes itself felt in all sections of society; it haunts the court, the library, the barrack-room, even the sanctuary; it is provoked in some unhappy souls by the near neighbourhood of any superior rank or excellence whatever.
Henry Parry Liddon
#94. What we do on some great occasion will probably depend on what we already are; and what we are will be the result of previous years of self-discipline.
Henry Parry Liddon
#95. But wherever we labour, the rule and the profession of the Apostle must be ours; and whatever be our personal mistakes and failures, God grant that our consciences may never accuse us of being ashamed of the Gospel of Christ.
Henry Parry Liddon
#96. I believe we do well to fall asleep each night with books. We enter the library of our dreams in good company then.
Robert Stephen Parry
#98. People with purpose don't let obstacles get in their way.
Greg Parry
#99. I could be accused of being a wannabe tribesman, of wanting to be a tribal dude, but that is not how I see it. I see it as me doing what they wanted me to do, showing them respect and hanging out with them.
Bruce Parry
#100. I'm going to imagine that converstion now. 'Hi, Mom, it's me. I ran away to Paris with a stranger I met under a bridge. He's really old, too, like twenty-five or something, and a soldier, so I helped him desert from his army, and, oh, did I mention he's a Communist' ...
Rosanne Parry
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