Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richelle Mead

Did you follow me from the party?" "Yes" "I didn't even know you were there." His dark clothes indicated he must have been on guardian duty at the party. "So you saw the illustrious Janine cause a commotion by dragging me out." "It wasn't a commotion. Hardly anyone noticed. I saw because I was watching you.

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.

William J. Clinton

There's a big conservative press unabashedly and for the Democrats and even people to the left of the Democratic party, there's almost virtually no outlets that you can compare with the vast array of conservative press that's out there.

William J. Clinton

Constant conflict is actually often good politics, because the more you can inflame your supporters the more likely they are to show up at Election Day. And if they're more inflamed than the other side, even if the other side has more people agreeing with it, you'll win, because your crowd will show up.

Sarah Palin

Politics isn't just a game of clashing parties and competing interests. The right reason is to challenge the status quo, to serve the common good, and to leave this nation better than we found it.

Sarah Palin

Well, it's always, though, safer in politics to avoid risk. To just kind of go along with the status quo. But I didn't get into government to do the safe and easy things. A ship in harbor is safe, but that's not why the ship is built. Politics isn't just a game of competing interests and clashing parties. The people of America expect us to seek public office and to serve for the right reasons. And the right reason is to challenge the status quo and to serve the common good.

Sarah Palin

Politics isn't just a game of clashing parties and competing interests.

Sara Cox

To be honest, it's a bit of a relief not having to be the party animal for a change.

Rhys Ifans

In Wales, singing and storytelling are party skills, not professions.

S. Hughes

He just went AWOL (absent without leave) on us. I think he just lost his heart for the battle. But he was a lovely lad. They all seem to be lovely lads from Trinidad.

Daniel Inouye

Henry was an acquaintance of presidents and kings, but his heart was always with the native people of Hawaii, who are still struggling for their moment in the sun,

Roberto Torres

Have the heart of a lion and the mind of an eagle.

Sandra Ritchey

Her heart had just been working too hard.

Nanci Griffith

...here's to all the dreamers, may our open hearts find rest.

John Tortorella

He's been so much-maligned all year long but tonight his heart was as big as the building, especially in that third period he played.

Tommy Amaker

I thought our veterans led the way for us with a lot of toughness and heart.

Drew Sullivan

He's been incredible for us all year. He's been the heart and soul of our team.

William Wilberforce

Oh Lord, purify my soul from all its stains. Warm my heart with the love of thee, animate my sluggish nature and fix my inconstancy, and volatility, that I may not be weary in well doing,

Vance Havner

Humility is not thinking meanly of oneself, but rather it means not thinking of oneself at all.

W. S. Gilbert

Wherever valor true is found, true modesty will there abound.

Saint Francis de Sales

True humility scarcely ever utters words of humility.

Joseph Addison

A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed of.

Mahatma Gandhi

Truth, purity, self-control, firmness, fearlessness, humility, unity, peace, and renunciation - these are the inherent qualities of a civil resister.

Mahatma Gandhi

Nonviolence is impossible without humility.

John Adams

Elections, especially of representatives and counselors, should be annual, there not being in the whole circle of the sciences a maxim more infallible than this, "where annual elections end, there slavery begins." These great men ... should be (chosen) once a year-Like bubbles on the sea of matter bourne, they rise, they break, and to the sea return. This will teach them the great political virtues of humility, patience, and moderation, without which every man in power becomes a ravenous beast of prey.

James Russell Lowell

Whatever you may be sure of, be sure of this, that you are dreadfully like other people.

James F. Cooper

The demagogue is usually sly, a detractor of others, a professor of humility and disinterestedness, a great stickler for equality as respects all above him, a man who acts in corners, and avoids open and manly expositions of his course, calls blackguards gentlemen, and gentlemen folks, appeals to passions and prejudices rather than to reason, and is in all respects, a man of intrigue and deception, of sly cunning and management.