Pry Quotes

66 Pry quotes by 58 unique authors

Where the apple reddens never pry - lest we lose our Edens, Eve and I. — Robert Browning
The ultimate in disposing one's troops is to be without ascertainable shape. Then the most penetrating spies cannot pry in nor can the wise lay… — Sun Tzu
I blame myself for not often enough seeing the extraordinary in the ordinary. Somewhere in his journals, Dostoyevky remarks that a writer can begin anywhere,… — Saul Bellow
We lie in the lap of immense intelligence, which makes us receivers of its truth and organ of its activity. When we discern justice, when… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Join me in standing up against any actual knowledge about guns. Let the CDC know they can take away our ignorance when the pry it… — Stephen Colbert
My friend Adele describes fundamentalism as holding so tightly to your beliefs that your fingernails leave imprints on the palm of your hand... I think… — Rachel Held Evans
It is the way to educate your eye and more. Stare, pry, listen, eavesdrop. — Walker Evans
When you know that something's going to happen, you'll start trying to see signs of its approach in just about everything. Always try to remember… — David Eddings
They can have my beer when they pry it out of my cold, dead hand. — Unknown Author
Everyone has a book inside of them - but it doesn't do any good until you pry it out. — Jodi Picoult
It hurts when God has to PRY things out of our hand! — Corrie Ten Boom
I have learned to hold all things loosely, so God will not have to pry them out of my hands. — Corrie Ten Boom
Like an unexpected wet mop in the face of tired complacency, The Sovereignty Solution works on the receptive mind as a pry bar works on… — Adam Garfinkle
Whatever you are holding onto in this life, hold it loosely so it won’t hurt when the Lord has to pry your fingers open to… — Priscilla Shirer
Now I've laid me down to die I pray my neighbors not to pry Too deeply into sins that I Not only cannot here deny… — Preston Sturges
ROMEO to BALTHASAR But if thou, jealous, dost return to pry In what I further shall intend to do, By heaven, I will tear thee… — William Shakespeare
As soon as we cease to pry about at random, we shall come to rely upon accredited bodies of authoritative dogma; and as soon as… — Learned Hand
Choose Life over the other stuff. Get out of your head. Live. Dress up. Eat. Touch people. Help out. Give up. Love people. Give your… — John Patrick Shanley
You'll drive yourself crazy if you start trying to pry the meaning out of every gust of wind or rain squall. I'm not denying that… — David Eddings
I'll retire when they pry my cold, dead fingers off of my Bible. — R C Sproul
Cities force us to interact with strangers and with the strange. They pry the mind open. And that is why they are the idea that… — Jonah Lehrer
You can have my gun when you pry it from my cold, dead fingers. — Charlton Heston
I have always been spurred on by my not finding expressed anywhere the kinds of perspectives that I thought these issues most perspicuously needed and… — Kenny Smith
The night was at her disposal. She might walk back to Great Mop and arrive very late; or she might sleep out and not trouble… — Sylvia Townsend Warner
Purge your mind of all aimless and idle thoughts, especially those that pry into the affairs of others or wish them ill. — Marcus Aurelius

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