Partie Quotes & Sayings

Will you stop trying to be brave! It's me, Mama! You can be honest with me. -Hetty — Jacqueline Wilson

Reach up to the feet of God, looking for a sign ... it was right here all the time ... — David Lee Roth

The latrine is apocalyptic — Anthony Doerr

Somehow this literary genre, which most people condemned, acted as a sort of counterbalance to Charles's soul; it was the ballast that prevented him from lurching into the serious or melancholy, unlike Andrew, who had been unable to adopt his cousin's casual attitude to life, and to whom everything seemed so achingly profound, imbed with that absurd solemnity that the transience of of existence conferred upon even the smallest act. — Felix J. Palma

That our selves and all men are apt and prone to differ it is no new Thing in all former Ages in all parts of this World in these parts and in our deare native Countrey and mournfull state of England.
That either part of partie is most right in his owne eye his Cause Right his Cariage Right, his Argumts Right his Answeres Right is as woefully and constantly true as the former. And experience tells us that when the God of peace hath taken peace from the Earth one sparke of Action word or Cariage is too too powrefull to kindle such a fire as burns up Families Townes Cities Armies, Navies Nations and Kingdomes.
[Letter of Roger Williams to Town of Providence, March 28, 1648] — Roger Williams

How! leap into the pit our life to save?
To save our life leap all into the grave. — William Cowper

The absent partie is still faultie. — George Herbert

I enjoy what I do because it keeps evolving - when I was a cook, I wanted to be a chef de partie; when I was a chef de partie, I wanted to be a chef; when I was a chef, I wanted to be a restaurateur, and now I am a chef entrepreneur. I am still fulfilling my dream. — Daniel Boulud

No question, your best times as a cook are the chef de partie years. Chef in charge of a section. It's the best and hardest job in the kitchen. — Tom Sellers

I was lucky enough to be given books that weren't top sellers; books that were kind of under the radar. — Bill Sienkiewicz

War reporting is still essentially the same - someone has to go there and see what is happening. You can't get that information without going to places where people are being shot at, and others are shooting at you. The real difficulty is having enough faith in humanity to believe that enough people, be they government, military or the man on the street, will care when your file reaches the printed page, the website or the TV screen. — Marie Colvin

I ask the Philippines Government to put an end to journalists' killings by giving journalists' safety the priority it deserves. — Warren Christopher

I lay back on my bunk and thought about people I love, and how lucky I was to be white and not poor and just passing briefly through a system which is a permanent hell for so many. — Howard Zinn

I wish I was a more adventurous person in a way. But actually, security is a really big deal for me. — Romola Garai

it was not by numbers that we were defeated. A power was there that we have not felt before. — J.R.R. Tolkien