Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alice Walker

My parents taught me service - not by saying, but by doing. That was my culture, the culture of my family.

Alice Meynell

In the case of women, it is of the living and unpublished blood that the violent world has professed to be delicate and ashamed. See the curious history of the political rights of woman under the Revolution. On the scaffold she enjoyed an ungrudged share in the fortunes of party. Political life might be denied her, but that seems a trifle when you consider how generously she was permitted political death.

Alice Cooper

And if I am elected, I promise the formation of a new party, a third party, a wild party.

Anne Lamott

We all have the dark, ignorant shadow inside us. I have worked endlessly to reveal it and heal it in me, but of course there's some primitive weird stuff in me. The Tea Party is about exhorting white supremacy, though, so I've had a tiny bit of trouble experiencing sympathy.

Anne Lamott

I am skittish about relationships, as most of the marriages I've seen up close have been ruinous for one or both parties.

Ana Castillo

Paris, true to its promise, had been a place of civilized indecencies, or uncivil decencies ...

Ana Castillo

I'm obviously an American citizen. My parents are American citizens. But I'm not looked at as an American.

Allen West

I believe there's about 78 to 81 members of the Democrat Party who are members of the Communist Party. It's called the Congressional Progressive Caucus.

Allen West

I think that if we get back to some basic fundamental principles, we can make sure that we resolve the issues. And I think that that's what the Tea Party was all about. It's getting back to a constitutional conservative government. And that is limited, but it's also effective and efficient. I think that that's what we'll be able to do.

Afrojack

My debut album, 'Forget the World,' is all about not listening to the negativity around you and to continue to do what you love, no matter what people think. I love what I do. Dance music is my passion, my life. There is no greater feeling than being one with my fans, partying to the music we love.

Aeschylus

For the impious act begets more after it, like to the parent stock.

What I think you should know is that I'm not wedded to any particular format.

What I think is really important is that parents, students and staff should know, regardless of the work to be done, school will start on Sept. 1 and teachers will be ready,

Alexander McQueen

I don’t want to do a cocktail party. I’d rather people left my shows and vomited.

Alexander Pope

Party-spirit at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.

Alexander Pope

I find myself hoping a total end of all the unhappy divisions of mankind by party-spirit, which at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.

Alexander Pope

There never was any party, faction, sect, or cabal whatsoever, in which the most ignorant were not the most violent; for a bee is not a busier animal than a blockhead.

Alex James

Food is one of life's really great pleasures. My 20th birthday party was all about booze, my 30th birthday was about drugs, and now I realise that my 40s are about food. It's something you appreciate more and more as you get older.

Alex Kingston

One of my sisters is physically and mentally handicapped. She took a lot of my parents' attention, so I grew up in my own world, playing in my room for hours and hours.

Alex Kapranos

Just because you can leap off a drum kit doing a scissors kick while hitting a chord, people expect you to be an extrovert socially. But I'm not always comfortable with the idea of small talk at a party.

Debbie Wasserman Schultz

We will talk about the contrast between both parties' nominees and our desire to continue to build on our success in helping people reach the middle class.

Debbie Wasserman Schultz

Really it's hard to know where the Republican Party ends and the Tea Party begins.

Debbie Wasserman Schultz

Unfortunately, the Republican leadership in the House right now seems to have been strangled by the tea party,

E. O. Wilson

This planet can be a paradise in the 22nd century.

E. O. Wilson

The newborn infant is now seen to be wired with awesome precision... This marvelous robot will be launched into the world under the care of its parents... But to what extent does the wiring of the neurons, so undeniably encoded in the genes, preordain the directions that social development will follow?

Drew Barrymore

The best kind of parent you can be is to lead by example.

Douglas Sirk

At the time I belonged to the socialist party, and Hitler came to power.

Douglas Rushkoff

Facebook has never been merely a social platform. Rather, it exploits our social interactions the way a Tupperware party does. Facebook does not exist to help us make friends, but to turn our network of connections, brand preferences and activities over time - our 'social graphs' - into money for others.

Doug Liman

That's why 'The Bourne Identity' has that sort of shaky style, because for the most part, Matt Damon and I were sneaking around Paris and shooting where we didn't have permits.

Dorothy Richardson

The joy of a party is the newness of people to each other, renewed strikingness of humanity. They love each other, to distraction. Really to distraction. Before they fall into conversation and separate. ... The strangeness, and the hopes aroused by strangeness, are illusions. Mirages arising wherever people gather expectantly together.

Donna Brazile

We know from the company we hired, Kraus Stripe , that there was Russian involvement in this to destabilize not just our institution, the Democratic Party, but our democracy itself.

Donna Brazile

Today, unfortunately, the right to vote seems to have become a partisan issue. Democrats seek to guarantee and expand voting rights. Republicans try to undermine and suppress voting rights.

Donna Karan

I love to play, I love to dance, I love to party . . . I'm a liver. I think what I need to learn is how to find the calmness, the centeredness.