Famous Quotes & Sayings

Susan Cain

As a young boy, Charles Darwin made friends easily but preferred to spend his time taking long, solitary nature walks. (As an adult he was no different. “My dear Mr. Babbage,” he wrote to the famous mathematician who had invited him to a dinner party, “I am very much obliged to you for sending me cards for your parties, but I am afraid of accepting them, for I should meet some people there, to whom I have sworn by all the saints in Heaven, I never go out.”)

Susan Cain

The glory of the disposition that stops to consider stimuli rather than rushing to engage with them is its long association with intellectual and artistic achievement. Neither E=mc2 nor Paradise Lost was dashed off by a party animal.

Susan B. Anthony

I shall work for the Republican party and call on all women to join me, precisely... for what that party has done and promises to do for women, nothing more, nothing less.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

There are always two parties; the establishment and the movement.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is a third silent party to all our bargains. The nature and soul of things takes on itself the guaranty of the fulfillment of every contract, so that honest service cannot come to loss. If you serve an ungrateful master, serve him the more. Put God in your debt. Every stroke shall be repaid. The longer the payment is withholden, the better for you; for compound interest on compound interest is the rate and usage of this exchequer.

Sidney Hook

No one who accepts the sovereignty of truth can be a foot soldier in a party or movement. He will always find himself out of step.

Shannen Doherty

I don't think the Republican Party is against women.

Neil Patrick Harris

[Before introducing the nominees for best animated film] If you're at the awards party with the guys who made the Lego Movie, now would be a good time to distract them.

Natalie Imbruglia

I've done a lot of partying in my time because I didn't want to go home and I didn't know what to do.

Mwai Kibaki

I am ready to have dialogue with the concerned parties once the nation is calm and the political temperatures are lowered enough for constructive and productive engagement.

Taylor Swift

Seeing a live Kenny Chesney show, you know what you're going to get. You know it's going to be an all-day party.

Tanya Tucker

I don't think I was really addicted. I used it as a party tool.

Tara Reid

Why is partying and having a good time bad?

Tallulah Bankhead

[To the man who came up to her at a party and exclaimed effusively, 'Tallulah! I haven't seen you for 41 years!':] I thought I told you to wait in the car.

Tallulah Bankhead

I think the Republican party should be placed in drydock and have the barnacles scraped off its bottom.

Svetlana Kuznetsova

You know, party every day until 6 a.m. and then sleep during the day.

Tony Robbins

When people 'succeed' they tend to party, when they 'fail' they tend to ponder...

Tony Robbins

When people succeed they party, when people fail they ponder.

Tony Blankley

The Republican party must break with its long-established instinct for caution and make a bold stand for first principles of freedom and constitutional limitations on government - from full repeal of Obamacare to rolling back multitrillion-dollar deficits. This is not so much a reproach of past Republican conduct as it is a recognition of new opportunities.

Tony Benn

I've been a member of the Labour Party sixty five years, and I remain in it, but I think it's all about campaigning for justice and peace, and if you do that, you get a lot of support.

Tony Benn

The 1973 Labour Conference will have before it the most radical programme the Party has prepared since 1945.

Tony Benn

I did not enter the Labour Party 47 years ago to have our manifesto written by Dr Mori, Dr Gallup and Mr Harris

Tony Benn

It would be as unthinkable to try to construct the Labour Party without Marx as it would to be to establish university faculties of astronomy,anthropology or psychology without permitting the study of Copernicus, Darwin or Freud, and still expect such faculties to be taken seriously

Tony Benn

I think the truth is that the Labour Party isn't believed any more because people suspect it will say anything to get votes. The rebuilding of some radical alternatives to Thatcherism - and by that I mean all-party Thatcherism - will require us to do some very difficult things

Tony Benn

The Tory party is the enemy of democracy.

Tony Benn

We are paying a heavy political price for 20 years in which, as a party, we have played down our criticism of capitalism and soft-peddled our advocacy of socialism

Tony Abbott

There are no factions in the Liberal Party

Tony Abbott

Every prime minister has a whole series of networks, and there are official formal networks and there are unofficial informal networks. I'm lucky in that I have good official formal networks, starting with my own office, the leadership group, the cabinet and the party room.

Tony Abbott

The Australian public are very fair and they are always prepared to give the leader of a major political party a fair go.

Tony Abbott

Political parties don't work when people just announce what they are doing and expect everyone else to follow.

Tony Abbott

Prima facie, every estate, whether given by will or otherwise, is supposed to be beneficial to the party to whom it is so given.

Tony Abbott

The only party which is going to increase taxes after the election is the Labor Party.

Tony Abbott

What will most certainly happen is that there will be very clear and full communication between the government and independents and minor parties. The precise mechanisms will evolve over time, but we certainly intend to keep the minor parties and the independents very much in the loop. We have to if we want our legislative agenda to have a reasonable chance of success and that's what we intend to do.