Pyke Quotes

#1. Necklace. The parchment curled, blackened, and took flame. Theon was aghast. "Have you gone mad?" His father laid a stinging backhand across his cheek. "Mind your tongue. You are not in Winterfell now, and I am not Robb the Boy, that you should speak to me so. I am the Greyjoy, Lord Reaper of Pyke,

George R R Martin

#2. Time is like the ocean; you can only hold a little in your hands.

Josh Pyke

#3. We all make mistakes... but it's also a step in the right direction. If nothing else it's a step away from the wrong one.

Adam Silvera

#4. That grin of his was torture on the balls.

Jack L. Pyke

#5. Sex is a conversation carried out by other means. If you get on well out of bed, half the problems of bed are solved.

Peter Ustinov

#6. The more living patterns there are in a place - a room, a building, or a town - the more it comes to life as an entirety, the more it glows, the more it has that self-maintaining fire which is the quality without a name.

Christopher Alexander

#7. Bad theology dishonors God and hurts people. Churches that sever the root of truth may flourish for a season, but they will wither eventually or turn into something besides a Christian church.

John Piper

#8. Count the times. The number of times you have seen the silence of another world seep though a crack. The number of times you have heard the sea trying to escape from the blue painted wall.

Jay Woodman

#9. Our susceptibility to myth is a world danger. Because the application of science to human behaviour has come so late the myth is regarded as less dangerous than the bacillus. It is doubtful whether such a belief is justified.

Geoffrey Pyke

#10. I'm going up to my room now, where I may die.

Diana Wynne Jones

#11. Meat is a status dish in which the sizzle counts for more than the nutritional worth.

Magnus Pyke

#12. Fortunes mean nothing without knowing the lives they forever changed.

Tali Alexander

#13. There are few things that can reconcile us fully to our parting with a world of which the longest life can see so little and whose beauties have so extraordinary a variety.

Freya Stark

#14. The only way to be absolutely safe is to never try anything for the first time.

Magnus Pyke

#15. The true notion is that the material universe is a sign or an indication of what God is. We look at the purity of the snowflake and we see something of the goodness of God. The world is full of poetry: it is sin which turns it into prose.

Fulton J. Sheen

#16. All this [wealth] excludes but one evil, poverty.

Samuel Johnson

#17. Sometimes being a friend is enough in its own right to inspire someone on to victory.

Stephen Richards

#18. The Chinese, as befits a Communist autocracy, approached the task of dominating the Olympics with top-down military discipline.

Shashi Tharoor

#19. A good traveler leaves no tracks.

Lao-Tzu