Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bouthaina Shaaban

What do you do if the other party won't talk?

Richard Posner

But Friedman seemed to share Friedrich Hayek's extreme and inaccurate view that socialism of the sort that Britain embraced under the old Labour Party was incompatible with democracy, and I don't think that there is a good theoretical or empirical basis for that view. The Road to Serfdom flunks the test of accuracy of prediction!

Richard Dawkins

People who do not know the Bible well have been gulled into thinking it is a good guide to morality. This mistaken view may have motivated the millionaire Conservative party donors. I have even heard the cynically misanthropic opinion that, without the Bible as a moral compass, people would have no restraint against murder, theft and mayhem. The surest way to disabuse yourself of this pernicious falsehood is to read the Bible itself.

Richard Whately

Party spirit enlists a man's virtues in the cause of his vices.

Richard Whately

The tendency of party spirit has ever been to disguise and propagate and support error.

Richelle Mead

But I’m just going to be out there having a tea party with her cats or whatever it is she has in mind." Adrian

Richelle Mead

Once you cross into the next loyal kingdom, however... be warned. You may not find such a warm reception. The Mimosa Land and its residents are not nearly so accommodating." This was warm and accommodating? That didn't bode well for the next kingdom. I also found it sad that a place called the Mimosa Land was unfriendly. It sounded like a party waiting to happen.

Richelle Mead

Sydney had been horrified to discover my home library consisted of a bartending dictionary and an old copy of Esquire, and at her pleading, I'd promised to read something more substantial. I was trying to think deep thoughts as I read Gatsby, but mostly I wanted to throw some parties.

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.

Rex Stout

Of course the modern detective story puts off its best tricks till the last, but Doyle always put his best tricks first and that's why they're still the best ones.

Woodrow Wilson

Only peace between equals can last.

Robert Carlyle

In troubled times the last thing you want to do is to stick your money into a film. It's such a gamble.

Rob Bell

No one has the last word other than God.

Robert Shaw

Success lasts only three seconds. After that, you're the same as you were before you had it.

Sarah Monette

The dead person is not truly dead until the last person who rememebers them dies.

Wallace Stevens

Disillusion is the last illusion.

William Blake

Enthusiastic Admiration is the first Principle of Knowledge and its last.

Samuel Richardson

Honeymoon lasts not nowadays above a fortnight.

Michael Moschen

I was learning things in school rather than learning how to teach myself, which is what you have to do in life, so I just abandoned it and did ceramics for a year and a half.

David Osgood

Kids are going to be kids, and if there is a backlash against either rave promoters or venues, we're going to be much less safer for it. These promoters know the limitations with which they can put on events in town. Kids are going to do this, either in an abandoned factory or in a venue where you have access to paramedics and police officers and security.

David Dye

There are tens of thousands of abandoned mines and quarries scattered across the American landscape, and some are more visible than others.

H. Hunt

There are so many stray and abandoned cats,

Albert Pujols

I think that if you get caught the third time, I mean that's real bad, you should get abandoned from the game. You shouldn't be able to be caught the third time because after the first time, if you don't learn from that, from 50 games that you sit down without getting paid, that's pretty bad.

Michael Marrero

The purpose of the program is to remove vacant and abandoned structures. In all of these cases, the abandoned houses are usually fire hazards, where drugs are dealt or are a harbor for juveniles.

Bill Clinton

We told you this would happen if the Democrats abandoned their faith.

Andrew Pyper

What I see as the particularly exciting prospect for writing horror fiction as we go forward is setting stories in more internal landscapes than external ones, mapping out the mind as the home for scary things instead of the house at the end of the lane or lakeside campground or abandoned amusement park.

Paul Richards

We've got to see beyond pork. We've got to do what's best for the planet. Instead of lobbying for nuclear missiles, we've got to resuscitate the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty that was abandoned (in 2005) largely due to opposition from the United States, Iran and Egypt.