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.

Samuel Johnson

Wealth is nothing in itself; it is not useful but when it departs from us.

Roger Ebert

We exist to have our wealth moved up the economic chain out of our reach.

William E. Gladstone

Commerce is the equalizer of the wealth of nations.

Henry George

The ideal social state is not that in which each gets an equal amount of wealth, but in which each gets in proportion to his contribution to the general stock.

James Cook

Money without wisdom diminishes the pleasure and enjoyment of wealth.

Norman Vincent Peale

Put God to work for you and maximize your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.

Robert Luketic

It's not going to be contemptuous of wealth and ambition,

Ann Thompson

They were wealthy and there have to be more.

Noam Chomsky

Palestinians have no wealth or power.

Irish Proverb

Good as drink is, it ends in thirst.

Robin Williams

I had to stop drinking alcohol because I used to wake up nude in front of my car with my keys in my ass.

Sarah Vowell

I talk about going to [George W. Bush's] Inauguration and crying when he took the oath, 'cause I was so afraid he was going to wreck the economy and muck up the drinking water'... the failure of my pessimistic imagination at that moment boggles my mind now.

Samuel Johnson

Melancholy, indeed, should be diverted by every means but drinking.

Vivian Stanshall

If I had all the money I've spent on drink — I'd spend it on drink.

Winston Churchill

My rule of life prescribed as an absolutely sacred rite smoking cigars.

W. C. Fields

It's quite true I'm not drinking anymore; however, I'm not drinking any less either.

W. C. Fields

It is well to remember that there are five reasons for drinking: the arrival of a friend, one's present or future thirst, the excellence of the cognac, or any other reason

W. C. Fields

Never give a sucker an even break.