Famous Quotes & Sayings

Helen Mirren

I don't throw a lot of parties. I find throwing parties a bit intimidating.

Hilary Mantel

I would have been a disaster as a career politician. I would never have toed a party line.

Hilary Mantel

If you get stuck, get away from your desk. Take a walk, take a bath, go to sleep, make a pie, draw, listen to music, meditate, exercise; whatever you do, don't just stick there scowling at the problem. But don't make telephone calls or go to a party; if you do, other people's words will pour in where your lost words should be.

Hilaire Belloc

Such are the mass of the supporters of either party. They derive their political opinions originally from some family tradition or some fanciful preference, but they back them with all the passion of sportsmen. In a vague subconscious way they know it is a game, but they happen to enjoy playing the game.

Henry Clay

The great advantage of our system of government over all others, is, that we have a written constitution, defining its limits, and prescribing its authorities; and that, however, for a time, faction may convulse the nation, and passion and party prejudice sway its functionaries, the season of reflection will recur, when calmly retracing their deeds, all aberrations from fundamental principle will be corrected.

Henry Clay

Political parties serve to keep each other in check, one keenly watching the other.

Henry Cloud

The Bible is clear about two principles: (1) We always need to forgive, but (2) we don’t always achieve reconciliation. Forgiveness is something that we do in our hearts; we release someone from a debt that they owe us. We write off the person’s debt, and she no longer owes us. We no longer condemn her. She is clean. Only one party is needed for forgiveness: me. The person who owes me a debt does not have to ask my forgiveness. It is a work of grace in my heart.

Helen Zille

The DA is the only party in South Africa that has grown in every national election and that trend must continue, and it must accelerate, because South Africa is in a race against time to save our democracy.

Johann Lamont

My Scottish Labour Party is a crusade - to fight poverty, inequality and injustice.

Johann Lamont

The Scottish Labour Party, while I have breath in my body, will listen to the views of trade unionists.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

He knows very little of mankind who expects, by any facts or reasoning, to convince a determined party man.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

If a poet would work politically, he must give himself up to a party; and so soon as he does that, he is lost as a poet.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Mathematics can remove no prejudices and soften no obduracy. It has no influence in sweetening the bitter strife of parties, and in the moral world generally its action is perfectly null.

Joe Walsh

I go to parties sometimes until four, it's hard to leave when you can't find the door.

Joe Manchin

I strongly believe that every American should always be rooting for our president to do well, no matter which political party that he or she might belong to.

Joe Lieberman

The anti-tax-cut, soft-on-defense, big-spending Democrats will take the Democratic Party to the edge and maybe over.

Frank Lautenberg

One thing I have learned in my time in politics is that if one of the parties is shameless, the other party cannot afford to be spineless.

Maggie Stiefvater

Blue was a fanciful, but sensible thing. Like a platypus, or one of those sandwiches that had been cut into circles for a fancy tea party.

Maggie Stiefvater

A novel is a conversation starter, and if the author isn't there for the after-party, both the writer and the reader are missing a lot.

Maggie Stiefvater

It's a hard thing to hold a civil conversation after recalling that one party has used a Taser on the other, so both of them finished the walk in silence.

Haruki Murakami

Friends don't need the intervention of a third party. Friendship's a voluntary thing.

Graydon Carter

I think being Canadian helps you as a journalist in America, because you're sort of on the outside watching this big party going on, and you're sort of taking mental notes as it goes on. I think if you're in the party the whole time, you don't notice it as much. And I think Canadians are very good observers of American culture.

Graydon Carter

I might wear a dinner jacket once a year to our Oscar party - that's a big thing - but I don't go to parties. I'm social but I'm not a socialite person.

Gordon Smith

I wish there were a healthier Republican Party in the state of Oregon.

Gordon Strachan

The world looks a totally different place after two wins. I can even enjoy watching Blind Date or laugh at Noel's House Party.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

The Party System was founded on one national notion of fair play. It was the notion that folly and futility should be fairly divided between both sides.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

English experience indicates that when the two great political parties agree about something it is generally wrong.

John Dryden

If the faults of men in orders are only to be judged among themselves, they are all in some sort parties; for, since they say the honour of their order is concerned in every member of it, how can we be sure that they will be impartial judges?

John Marshall

The French Revolution will be found to have had great influence on the strength of parties, and on the subsequent political transactions of the United States.

John Maynard Keynes

All the political parties alike have their origins in past ideas and not in new ideas and none more conspicuously so than the Marxists .

John Major

When I was in office the fundraising was done by the party treasurers.

John Lydon

I could never be a member of a single party. I want the best of all worlds, thank you.

John Lydon

I was brought up and raised in Britain as a Labour man, and that quickly changed. And I find there are more working-class people in the Conservative Party than the Labour party.