Famous Quotes & Sayings

George W. Bush

Ronald Reagan was a great role model for Respublicans party, and I think for most people. But he was a fellow that the American public just intuitively loved so much, that he could always get credit.

George W. Bush

The American people have got a touchstone: Which party voted for the tools necessary to protect America and which party didn't? And that's what I'm trying to get people to focus on.

George W. Bush

Health care costs are on the rise because the consumers are not involved in the decision-making process. Most health care costs are covered by third parties. And therefore, the actual user of health care is not the purchaser of health care. And there's no market forces involved with health care.

George Orwell

The Party is not interested in the overt act. The thought is all we care about.

George Orwell

Politically, Swift was one of those people who are driven into a sort of perverse Toryism by the follies of the progressive party of the moment.

George Orwell

The party is not concerned with perpetuating itself. Who wields power is not important, providing that the hierarchical structure always remains the same.

George Orwell

The ideal set up by the Party was something huge, terrible, and glittering-a world of steel and concrete, of monstrous machines and terrifying weapons-a nation of warriors and fanatics, marching forward in perfect unity, all thinking the same thoughts and shouting the same slogans, perpetually working, fighting, triumphing, persecuting-three hundred million people all with the same face.

George Orwell

But you could not have pure love or pure lust nowadays. No emotion was pure, because everything was mixed up with fear and hatred. Their embrace had been a battle, the climax a victory. It was a blow struck against the Party. It was a political act.

George Orwell

Some things ARE true, even though the party says they are true.

George Orwell

In a way, the world−view of the Party imposed itself most successfully on people incapable of understanding it. They could be made to accept the most flagrant violations of reality, because they never fully grasped the enormity of what was demanded of them, and were not sufficiently interested in public events to notice what was happening. By lack of understanding they remained sane. They simply swallowed everything, and what they swallowed did them no harm, because it left no residue behind, just as a grain of corn will pass undigested through the body of a bird.

George Carlin

At a formal dinner party, the person nearest death should always be seated closest to the bathroom.

Garth Nix

There were also very special or dangerous items that had to be fetched in person, or even by large parties of armed librarians.

Garth Brooks

It's midnight Cinderella, but don't worry none. Cause I'm Peter the Pumpkin Eater and the party's just begun.

Frederic Raphael

The party of God and the party of Literature have more in common than either will admit their texts may conflict, but their bigotries coincide. Both insist on being the sole custodians of the true word and its only interpreters.

Frederick Douglass

I recognize the Republican party as the sheet anchor of the colored man's political hopes and the ark of his safety.

Frederick Buechner

The grace of God means something like: Here is your life. You might never have been, but you are because the party wouldn't have been complete without you.

Frank Sinatra

Alcohol may be man's worst enemy, but the bible says love your enemy.

George Eliot

Hostesses who entertain much must make up their parties as ministers make up their cabinets, on grounds other than personal liking.

Ferdinand Mount

A majority in all parties do, I think, want to see local government recover its old vigour and independence.

Fergie

A little party never killed nobody.

Feisal Abdul Rauf

There are moderates in Israel. There are moderates in Iran, there are moderates in the Republican Party, moderates in the Democratic Party. What we need to do is we need link all of these moderates together and to figure out a way by which this particular coalition can speak to important issues to marginalize the voice of the extremists.

Fay Weldon

Nowadays most people wear black most of the time anyway: go to a literary party and one would imagine everyone there was in perpetual mourning for their lives.

Fawn M. Brodie

Superficial parallels were drawn between the Church and the Nazi Party, with its emphasis on active involvement by every member. The women's auxiliary of the Party and the Hitler Youth were regarded by some as secular equivalents to the Church's Relief Society, MIA, and the Scouting programs.

Fatou Bensouda

I think my track record speaks for myself... I have been endorsed by the African Union, but I am a prosecutor for 121 states parties and this is what I intend to be until the end of my mandate.

Fareed Zakaria

Thanks to the Communist Party of China, we now know the path to poverty alleviation is Capitalism.

Fannie Lou Hamer

All of this is on account we want to register [sic], to become first-class citizens, and if the Freedom Democratic Party is not seated now, I question America. Is this America, the land of the free and the home of the brave where we have to sleep with our telephones off the hooks because our lives be threatened daily because we want to live as decent human beings - in America?

F. Murray Abraham

Whenever there were parties, I wasn't invited because I began to be like that character. In a way, that contributed to the success of the performance.

F. Murray Abraham

I love parties. I love a good time.

Ezra Miller

Life is a grand party.

Ezra Taft Benson

We must be devoted to sound principles in word and deed: principle above party, principle above pocketbook, principle above popularity.

Evangelos Venizelos

I am the head of the Socialists, but the party is not my property.

Eugene McCarthy

Saying we should keep the two-party system simply because it is working is like saying the Titanic voyage was a success because a few people survived on life rafts.

Francis Maude

Our party has known great, great days. But we have no God-given right to survive, let alone to succeed.