Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lillian Hellman

some people are democrats by choice, and some by necessity.

Letitia Baldrige

A balanced guest list of mixed elements is to a successful party what the seasoning is to a culinary triumph.

Letitia Baldrige

the person talking to you never looks directly at you, but rather around the room, searching for the answer to the universal cocktail party question, 'Who's here tonight?

Letitia Baldrige

Finally ... You have accomplished your mission in going there tonight - you were 'seen,' and you furnished your host and hostess with the sincerest proof of your great love and friendship for them - you endured their cocktail party.

Letty Cottin Pogrebin

I used to anticipate my childhood birthday parties as if each were an annual coronation. Like most kids, I loved sitting at the head of the table with a crown on my head.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

How very satisfactory those discussions must be, where each party retains their own opinion!

Leon Trotsky

In Russia itself the proletariat conquered in spite of the fact that there was no Soviet State in existence at the time elsewhere. For the victory are necessary, not only certain objective conditions, internal as well as external, but also certain subjective factors - the Party, the leadership, the strategy.

Leon Trotsky

The boycott of parliamentary institutions on the part of anarchists and semianarchists is dictated by a desire not to submit their weakness to a test on the part of the masses, thus preserving their right to an inactive hauteur which makes no difference to anybody. A revolutionary party can turn its back to a parliament only if it has set itself the immediate task of overthrowing the existing regime.

Leon Trotsky

Our party's most outstanding mediocrity.

Leon Trotsky

The people will have the right to elect their representatives from a list of candidates [who have been approved by the Party].

Leon Trotsky

In inner-party politics, these methods lead, as we shall yet see, to this: the party organization substitutes itself for the party, the central committee substitutes itself for the organization, and, finally, a dictator substitutes himself for the central committee.

Leon Trotsky

The dictatorship of the Communist Party is maintained by recourse to every form of violence.

Jodi Picoult

It was one thing to sacrifice your own life for someone else's. It was another thing entirely to bring into the mix a third party - a third party who knew you, who trusted you implicitly.

John Green

The only thing worse than having a party that no one attends is having a party attended only by two vastly, deeply uninteresting people.

Pat Robertson

It's just impossible to ignore the activists in your party. These are the people who stuff the envelopes, and walk the precincts, and make the telephone calls, and do all the so-called grunt work that brings about a successful campaign.

Pat Robertson

I think we do want a front-runner from the Republican Party who can win the general election.

Pat Robertson

I am bound by the laws of the United States and all 50 states...I am not bound by any case or any court to which I myself am not a party...I don't think the Congress of the United States is subservient to the courts...They can ignore a Supreme Court ruling if they so choose.

P. Chidambaram

I know my limitations. I live and work according to my limitations. And my party only two weeks ago has clearly declared that the leader of the party after Ms Sonia Gandhi will be Mr Rahul Gandhi. And all of us, including me, have expressed our solid support to Mr Rahul Gandhi.

P. Chidambaram

Congress is not a party which fades when not in power

Ozzy Osbourne

As I'm getting older a lot of my friends I used to go out and party with, they're all dead. The fact that I've been through that, I'm not proud of the fact that I've been through all that, but it's part of my journey. I'm lucky to be alive. I'm lucky to be playing music.

Ozzy Osbourne

I'm the demon alcohol, demon alcohol, demon alcohol, demon alcohol. Let's party.

P. G. Wodehouse

You're one of those guys who can make a party just by leaving it. It's a great gift.

P. G. Wodehouse

It was one of those parties where you cough twice before you speak and then decide not to say it after all.

Paul Brown

My theory with the auctions has been to try to make them like a party, like a social event. If people are having a good time, talking with their friends, they're much more likely to bid.

Paul Begala

See, I think if it just became who's sleeping with whom, then there's no reason to prefer one party over the other, 'cause the truth is we're all sinners.

Matthew Fox

I directed an episode of 'Party of Five' toward the very end of that show. It was a great experience.

Marya Mannes

certain kinds of people become Republicans and certain kinds of people become Democrats, and ... it's more than a matter of party affiliation. It's a way of thinking and being.

Marya Mannes

the Republicans think they have a corner on morality ...

Marya Mannes

Republicans seems to me to be chiefly concerned with holding on to what they have: in society, it's position, or respectability, or what you will; in business, of course, it's profit.

Marya Mannes

I don't think it's possible to write a good play or paint a good picture and be a good Republican.

Marta Andreasen

Political parties exist to get bums on seats.

Marsilio Ficino

The abstractionist and the materialist thus mutually exasperating each other, and the scoffer expressing the worst of materialism, there arises a third party to occupy the middle ground between these two, the skeptic, namely. He finds both wrong by being in extremes. He labors to plant his feet, to be the beam of the balance.

Mark Helprin

'Freeing' a literary work into the public domain is less a public benefit than a transfer of wealth from the families of American writers to the executives and stockholders of various businesses who will continue to profit from, for example, 'The Garden Party,' while the descendants of Katherine Mansfield will not.