Prise Quotes

#1. Try to prise a limpet away from its rock and it will cling all the harder.

Jeremy Holmes

#2. ... but Charlie had seen love and prise flare in the brown eyes, burning away every trace of sadness and timidity. Rose Petch, she knew, would never abandon her child the way Charlie's mother had abandoned her. ... Charlie stood, trembling, torn nearly in two by jealousy and longing ...

Ellen Renner

#3. You may force your way through anything with the leverage of prayer. Thoughts and reasonings are like the steel wedges which give a hold upon truth; but prayer is the lever, the prise which forces open the iron chest of sacred mystery, that we may get the treasure hidden within.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#4. Words are not (except in their own little corner) facts or things: we need therefore to prise them off the world, to hold them apart from and against it, so that we can realize their inadequacies and arbitrariness, and can relook at the world without blinkers.

J.L. Austin

#5. The midfield are like a chef, trying to prise open a stubborn oyster to get at the fleshy meat inside.

George Hamilton

#6. It's going to take a shoehorn to prise these two teams apart

Alan Parry

#7. I was well warned about English food, so it did not surprise me, but I do wonder sometimes, how they ever manage to prise it up long enough to get a plate under it.

Margaret Halsey

#8. My opponent left a glass of whisky 'en prise' and I took it 'en passant'.

Joseph Henry Blackburne

#9. When a Piece or Pawn is in a situation to be taken by the enemy, it is said to be en prise. To put a piece en prise, is to play it so that it may be captured.

Howard Staunton

#10. Ur attitude is ur prise tag, it shows how valuable u r .. so keep ur unique attitude

Sky

#11. Use the prise de fer!" Shelby called. "Lilith sucks at the prise de fer. Correction: Lilith sucks at everything, but especially the prise de fer.

Lauren Kate

#12. He seemed unburdened now, more willing to simply grab onto life and go for a ride.

Abigail Roux

#13. I have spent a fortune traveling to distant shores and looked at lofty mountains and boundless oceans, and yet I haven't found time to take a few steps from my house to look at a single dew drop on a single blade of grass.

Rabindranath Tagore

#14. Fundamentalist s live life with an exclamation point. I prefer to live my life with a question mark.

Amos Oz

#15. Some lessons are only delivered in the form of pain.

Tablo

#16. It's hard to tell what an entire series is going to be based on the first few episodes, or even on the first season. And it's sad because you see great casts and good ideas that don't get that opportunity to grow and show what it could turn into.

Kaley Cuoco

#17. Long before the stars died the birds began to sing - cool rippling doves, loud cheery starlings, the long lilting trills of warblers and thrushes.

Mike Bond