Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dimitar Sasselov

My parents gave me a small telescope, then I built my own, and one thing led to another. So thats how I ended up going from being a hobby astronomer to a professional astronomer.

Eleanor Clift

The list of women to potentially be on a major party ticket, in both parties, is embarrassingly short.

Eleanor Clift

Tea Party Republicans, in an effort to kill the farm bill will stereotype and make racial comments about food stamps - which is a big element to the program.

Eleanor Roosevelt

The morality of a [political] party must grow out of the conscience and the participation of the voters.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Long ago, there was a noble word, liberal, which derives from the word free. Now a strange thing happened to that word. A man named Hitler made it a term of abuse, a matter of suspicion, because those who were not with him were against him, and liberals had no use for Hitler. And then another man named McCarthy cast the same opprobrium on the word. ... We must cherish and honor the word free or it will cease to apply to us.

Eleanor Roosevelt

If you believe that a nation is really better off which achieves for a comparative few, those who are capable of attaining it, high culture, ease, opportunity, and that these few from their enlightenment should give what they consider best to those less favored, then you naturally belong to the Republican Party. But if you believe that people must struggle slowly to the light for themselves, then it seems to me that you are a Democrat.

Edwina Currie

If someone asks for a soft drink at a party, we no longer think he is a wimp.

Edwina Currie

The Labour Party is being led by a woman but she has not been elected to anything. She is the lady who makes the breakfast in the Kinnock household.

Aristotle

There are no experienced young people. Time makes experience.

Aristotle

Youth should stay away from all evil, especially things that produce wickedness and ill-will.

Aristotle

Neither should we forget the mean, which at the present day is lost sight of in perverted forms of government; for many practices which appear to be democratical are the ruin of democracies, . . Those who think that all virtue is to be found in their own party principles push matters to extremes; they do not consider that disproportion destroys a state.

Aristotle

Neglect of an effective birth control policy is a never-failing source of poverty which, in turn, is the parent of revolution and crime.

Aristotle

To give a satisfactory decision as to the truth it is necessary to be rather an arbitrator than a party to the dispute.

Aristotle

Those who believe that all virtue is to be found in their own party principles push matters to extremes; they do not consider that disproportion destroys a state.

Ben Hecht

Much more frequent in Hollywood than the emergence of Cinderella is her sudden vanishing. At our party, even in those glowing days, the clock was always striking twelve for someone at the height of greatness; and there was never a prince to fetch her back to the happy scene.

Joseph Joubert

Because, you see, you only need one friend for a party. One is enough. Two is enough. Anything is enough.' ~pg 107; Adam on friendship

We're sitting here trying to second-guess what another party will do. Let's just see what they'll do,

Alexis de Tocqueville

The last thing abandoned by a party is its phraseology.

Alexis de Tocqueville

The last thing abandoned by a party is its phraseology, because among political parties, as elsewhere, the vulgar make the language, and the vulgar abandon more easily the ideas that have been instilled into it than the words that it has learnt.

Alexis de Tocqueville

There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle.

Alexei Sayle

But as in all cults, what's central to the Communist Party is the belief system and the elimination of nuance. From there you're very slowly led down the road to fanaticism and mass murder.

Alexandre Dumas

I came to Paris with four écus in my pocket, and I’d have fought with anybody who told me I was in no condition to buy the Louvre.

Robert Mueller

As I said before, there are often disagreements as to what a particular set of facts mean. That is not at all unusual, and one shouldn't read into it more than is there.

Let's just wait - there's been a lot a paranoia that may not be justified.

Werner Herzog

I'm politically interested, but I have no particular talent as a political beast, stepping out and running for office.

Emma Roberts

I like to go to parties if I know who's going to be there, and if it's people I want to be with. I don't just go to go. And I always drive myself, because I hate being stuck places - there's nothing worse that going out and then being stuck!

The political parties have to understand that this is something that is not going to disappear.

Brad Goreski

Paris is one of my favorite cities, but Paris during Fashion Week is everything!

Vanessa Williams

There are a lot of things that you don't realize that your parents are going through when you're a kid.

Steve Hockensmith

Without Leonard Nimoy, there would have been no 'Star Trek' phenomenon. And without 'Star Trek'... well, that's a parallel universe most of us probably wouldn't want to visit.

Samuel Goldwyn, Jr.

My parents were self-made people, and they were a team.

Dennis Prager

The Libertarian Party is a shameful party

Nathaniel Philbrick

'Moby-Dick' has a remarkable way of resonating with whatever is going on in the world at that particular moment.