Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tim O'Brien

When I have a book I enjoy, I'm partly in the book. I'm not just observing it.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

It's time to stop thinking of the Republican Party as an exclusive club where your ideological card is checked at the door, and start thinking about how we can attract more solution-based leaders like Nathan Fletcher and Anthony Adams.

Aziz Ansari

Sometimes you gotta work a little, so you can ball a lot.

Ayelet Waldman

As a parent, the only thing I am absolutely certain of is my own fallibility.

Ayn Rand

Parties are intended to be celebrations, and celebrations should be only for those who have something to celebrate.

Ayn Rand

It is a matter of record that in the German Election of 1933, the Communist Party was ordered by its leaders to vote for the Nazis - with the explanation that they could later fight the Nazis for power, but first they had to help destroy their common enemy : capitalism and its parliamentary form of government.

Ayn Rand

Lobbying' is the activity of attempting to influence legislation by privately influencing the legislators. It is the result and creation of a mixed economy-of government by pressure groups. Its methods range from mere social courtesies and cocktail-party or luncheon "friendships" to favors, threats, bribes, blackmail.

Benigno Aquino III

Although I was born to famous parents, I know and feel the problems of ordinary citizens.

Benito Mussolini

State ownership! It leads only to absurd and monstrous conclusions; state ownership means state monopoly, concentrated in the hands of one party and its adherents, and that state brings only ruin and bankruptcy to all.

Benjamin Disraeli

I pride myself in recognizing and upholding ability in every party and wherever I meet it.

Benjamin Disraeli

All Paradise opens! Let me die eating ortolans to the sound of soft music!

Benjamin Disraeli

There are few positions less inspiriting than those of a discomfited party.

Benjamin Disraeli

Things must be done by parties, not by persons using parties as tools.

Benjamin Disraeli

It is well-known what a middleman is: he is a man who bamboozles one party and plunders the other.

Benjamin Disraeli

Damn your principles! Stick to your party.

Benjamin Disraeli

A parsimony of words prodigal of sense.

Benjamin Disraeli

Party is organized opinion.

Benjamin Disraeli

Gentlemen, the Tory party, unless it is a national party, is nothing.

Benjamin Disraeli

There is no act of treachery or meanness of which a political party is not capable; for in politics there is no honour.

Ben Folds

My parents told me I must get married. I was seen as a failure if I didn't do it.

Candis Cayne

My parents, Gary and Patricia, let me be in my world. They never told me what I couldnt do. It helped me adapt in a positive way.

Cam Newton

My parents do a lot of things behind the scenes that go unnoticed.

Cameron Diaz

I did all my heavy partying before I turned sixteen.

C. S. Lewis

He told people that their sins were forgiven, and never waited to consult all the other people whom their sins had undoubtedly injured. He unhesitatingly behaved as if He was the party chiefly concerned, the person chiefly offended in all offenses. This makes sense only if He really was God whose laws are broken and whose love is wounded in every sin.

Miley Cyrus

People more think of me as a party animal. Which, I am a self-proclaimed party animal, but I'm also the hardest working person you'll ever know.

Calvin Coolidge

Good government cannot be found on the bargain-counter. We have seen samples of bargain-counter government in the past when low tax rates were secured by increasing the bonded debt for current expenses or refusing to keep our institutions up to the standard in repairs, extensions, equipment, and accommodations. I refuse, and the Republican Party refuses, to endorse that method of sham and shoddy economy.

Calvin Coolidge

We cannot weaken or destroy political parties in ther United States without weakening or destroying the rule of the people.... Those who support party organization and submit to party discipline are supporting the only course yet discovered for orderly government by the people.

Calvin Coolidge

A colored man is precisely as much entitled to submit his candidacy in a party primary, as is any other citizen. The decision must be made by the constituents to whom he offers himself, and by nobody else.

Calvin Coolidge

The suggestion of denying any measure of their full political rights to such a great group of our population as the colored peopleis one which, however it might be received in some other quarters, could not possibly be permitted by one who feels a responsibility for living up to the traditions and maintaining the principles of the Republican Party. Our Constitution guarantees equal rights to all of our citizens, without discrimination on account of race or color. I have taken my oath to support that Constitution.

Celine Buckens

My parents are both Belgian-born, and so am I, actually.

Catherine O'Hara

I lived in LA for a few months. It seemed like no one there had parents. Or if they did have parents, they would deny it.

Carson Kressley

Friends think your life is so glamorous, and it is. But there are times when, instead of going to a glamorous party, I would rather just come home from work, pop in a DVD and eat some microwave popcorn with a cutie on the sofa.

Carroll Quigley

When the business interests... pushed through the first installment of civil service reform in 1883, they expected that they would be able to control both political parties equally.