Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Francis Maude

The party at its best has always been a modern party.

Francis Maude

It is simply the view, and a view I think shared by most members of the party, that it is very difficult to have a leader that does not command the support of the parliamentary party.

Francis Parkman

We were now, as I before mentioned, upon this St. Joseph's trail. It was evident, by the traces, that large parties were a few days in advance of us; and as we too supposed them to be Mormons, we had some apprehension of interruption.

Francis Collins

I think history would say that medical research has, throughout many changes of parties, remained as one of the shining lights of bipartisan agreement, that people are concerned about health for themselves, for their families, for their constituents.

Francis Bacon

It is a good point of cunning for a man to shape the answer he would have in his own words and propositions, for it makes the other party stick the less.

Ernest Mandel

Revolution is an instrument, like a party is an instrument.

Ernest Mandel

I do not believe in self-proclaimed parties.

Ernest Mandel

Factions are a sign of illness in a party.

Florence King

I don't mind being regarded as perverted and unnatural, but I would die if people thought I was a Democrat.

Florence Welch

I like a house party and fancy dress, a big fan of fancy dress, like dress up, costume parties.

Florence Welch

Going to parties usually makes me feel depressed, just because I have such social fear after meeting people.

Florence Nightingale

The time is come when women must do something more than the "domestic hearth," which means nursing the infants, keeping a pretty house, having a good dinner and an entertaining party.

Fletcher Knebel

The convention is the voice, the bone and the sinews of a political party-and sometimes it even nominates an Abraham Lincoln.

Fiona Apple

I'm not a functional person because I don't go on lunch dates with friends. I hear about people having dinner parties but I never do that. I'm not really human.

Henry Lawson

Beer makes you feel the way you ought to feel without beer.

Cassandra Clare

Simon watched a kelpie skip past, carrying a glass of blue fluid, and raised an eyebrow. “It’s not like Magnus’s party,” Isabelle reassured him. “Everything here ought to be safe to drink.” “Ought to be?” Aline look worried.

Cassandra Clare

You like the party?" "Is it in honor of anything?" "My cat's birthday." "Oh." She glanced around. "Where's your cat?" "I dont know. He ran away." -Magnus & Clary, pg.221-

It's a professional place. It's not a party store.

It may make him independent of the party bosses, but many have wondered if he is independent of his donors.

A year from now, you'll see a whole different party than we have now.

Jaroslaw Kaczynski

A single party is ruling in Hungary, but democracy and the freedom of speech are still in place.

Jarvis Cocker

It's weird: The leader of the Conservative Party in England is two years younger than me, and I still don't really feel like a responsible adult.

Jarvis Cocker

There are some quite funny things about getting famous and stuff, but I think there comes a point where you have to think to yourself, "Well, am I doing this because I want to go to a party and meet Britney Spears? Or am I doing it because I want to create something that excites me?"

Janeane Garofalo

Herman Cain is probably well-liked by some of the Republicans because it hides the racist elements of the Republican Party, conservative movement and tea party movement. People like Karl Rove like to keep the racism very covert and so Herman Cain provides this great opportunity so he can say, 'Look: This is not a racist anti-immigrant, anti-female, anti-gay movement. Look: We have a black man.' And look he's polling well and he won a straw poll.

Janet Evanovich

The dancers finished thier set, and one immediately strolled over to our table and straddled Ranger. Want a private party?" she asked. Not tonight," Ranger said. He handed her a twenty, and she left. What about the cat-feeding theory?" I asked him. Out the window.