Famous Quotes & Sayings

Virginia Woolf

Needless to say, the business of living interferes with the solitude so needed for any work of the imagination. Here's what Virginia Woolf said in her diary about the sticky issue: "I've shirked two parties, and another Frenchman, and buying a hat, and tea with Hilda Trevelyan, for I really can't combine all this with keeping all my imaginary people going.

Wu Bangguo

Especially when there are difficulties in our relations, parties and statesmen in China and Japan should look over the situation from a higher point of view and preserve the political foundation of bilateral ties.

Woodrow Wilson

The success of a party means little more than that the Nation is using the party for a large and definite purpose. It seeks to use and interpret a change in its own plans and point of view.

Xi Jinping

Safeguarding the interests of our Taiwan compatriots and expanding their well-being is the mainland's oft-repeated pledge and solemn promise of the new leaders of China's Communist Party central committee.

Xi Jinping

Comrade Mao, whether he was crossing 'a sea of surging waves' or scaling 'a mountain pass impregnable as iron' always held unwaveringly to his course, setting a shining example for the Chinese Communist Party.

Xi Jinping

Why did the Soviet Union disintegrate? Why did the Soviet Communist Party collapse? An important reason was that their ideals and beliefs had been shaken.

Xi Jinping

Corruption could lead to the collapse of the Party [Communist Party of China] and the downfall of the State [People's Republic of China].

Winston Smith

If the Party could thrust its hand into the past and say of this or that event, it never happened - that, surely, was more terrifying than mere torture and death.

Wole Soyinka

It's my duty to fight those who have chosen to belong to the party of death, those who say they receive their orders from God somewhere and believe they have a duty to set the world on fire to achieve their own salvation.

Wiz Khalifa

Last night I let the party get the best of me.

Winston Churchill

The American Constitution declares 'All men are born equal.' The British Socialist Party add: 'All men must be kept equal'.

Wilson Mizner

A good party is where you enjoy good people, and they taste even better with Champagne.

Wilson Mizner

Popularity is exhausting. The life of the party almost always winds up in a corner with an overcoat over him.

Will Self

A party full of 'likeable' people doesn't bear contemplating.

Will Self

You may have gathered that I am not the most cheerful of revellers - some characterise me as the death and soullessness of any party but it wasn't always so, believe me.

Will Rogers

No party is as bad as its leaders.

Will Rogers

There's no way in the world you're going to make a political party respectable unless you keep it out of office.

Will Rogers

Both political parties have their good times and bad times, only they have them at different times.

Will Rogers

I'm not a member of an organized party. I'm a Democrat.

Will Rogers

There is a hundred things to single you out for promotion in party politics besides ability.

Wes Boyd

The Democratic Party had no idea how to use the Internet. They treated it like free money and then kept on doing all the rest of the things they normally do.

Vladislav Surkov

Parties can't be artificially assembled at the Kremlin.

Vladislav Surkov

The main problem is that many support the United Russia Party without even agreeing with its ideology - or even having an ideology of their own.

W. E. B. Du Bois

In 1956, I shall not go to the polls. I have not registered. I believe that democracy has so far disappeared in the United States that no 'two evils' exist. There is but one evil party with two names, and it will be elected despite all I can do or say.

Zachary Taylor

I would not be the mere President of a Party. I feel bound to administer the government untrammeled by party schemes.

Zachary Taylor

I am not a party candidate, and if elected cannot be President of a party, but the President of the whole people.

Yvon Chouinard

Climbing for speed records will probably become more popular, a mania which has just begun. Climbers climb not just to see how fast and efficiently they can do it, but far worse, to see how much faster and more efficiently they are than a party which did the same climb a few days before. The climb becomes secondary, no more important than a racetrack. Man is pitted against man.

Zach Braff

If you're dumb enough to volunteer for the army, I don't see why we're supposed to feel so bad when you get shot. I'm not saying we should throw a party or anything, but is it such a tragedy? If I'd gotten shot before I made 'Garden State', yeah, that's a tragedy, but some red-state hick getting his legs blown off? Come on.

Ze Frank

Perfectionism may look good in his shiny shoes, but he’s a little bit of an asshole and no one invites him to their pool parties.

Yoweri Museveni

None of the parties want this conflict to go on.

The Communist Party of China is a party that seeks peace, harmony and reconciliation, unlike the Communist Party of the former Soviet Union

Ziggy Marley

Feb 6 1945 St. Ann, Jamaica, Daddy was born. I remember us celebrating one of his birthdays in Jamaica at 56 Hope Road with him, no big superstar party, just us kids, Mommy, some cake, few laughs and that was it. Even if he wasn't known to the world on Feb 6th I would still think of him and in my heart say Happy Birthday Daddy. Love.

Yvonne Strahovski

I remember being at Greenblatt's on Sunset, and some guy just walked straight up to me, and he had some bling on and whatever, and said something about a party down in Malibu and asked if I would jump in his car and go to the party. All I could think was, 'Who are you? I don't know you, and I don't care about how good your car is.'