Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

John Lydon

I'm very open about my politics. I don't believe in any political party at all, none of them.

John Locke

That which parents should take care of... is to distinguish between the wants of fancy, and those of nature.

John Lewis

I would like to think that we have made much more progress, that we've come much further, to have someone like a Donald Trump to emerge as the nominee of a major political party.

John Lennon

He laid it on George, me and our wives without telling us at a dinner party at his house. He was a friend of George's, and our dentist at the time. He just put it in our coffee or something. He didn't know what it was, it was just, 'It's all the thing,' with the middle-class London swingers. They had all heard about it and didn't know it was different from pot or pills. And they gave it to us, and he was saying, 'I advise you not to leave,' and we thought he was trying to keep us for an orgy in his house and we didn't want to know.

John Lennon

I didn't leave the Beatles. The Beatles have left the Beatles, but no one wants to be the one to say the party's over.

John Lennon

If [Sean] doesn't see me a few days or if I'm really, really busy, and I just sort of get a glimpse of him, or if I'm feeling depressed without him even seeing me, he sort of picks up on it. And he starts getting that way. So I can no longer afford to have artistic depressions. If I start wallowing in a depression, he'll start coming down with stuff, so I'm sort of obligated to keep up. And sometimes I can't, because something will make me depressed and sure as hell he'll get a cold or trap his finger in a door or something, and so now I have sort of more reason to stay healthy or bright...

John le Carre

Why did I desert Labour? Total bloody disillusionment. The party was a corpse. It had no ideology, it became detached, old, spineless and needed to go.

John Banville

All I wanted was to be left alone. They abhor a vacuum, other people. You find a quiet corner where you can hunker down in peace, and the next minute there they are, crowding around you in their party hats, tooting their paper whistles in your face and insisting you get up and join in the knees-up.

Kyle Williams

At a meet, if you need him in a particular event, he's there to step up and get points for you when you need them.

A lot of it has to do with parents who smoke. It was a part of their culture.

They have a showcase every year and you get to see snippets of the shows. We saw parts of all of the shows we booked, and they're great.

Tim Johnson

They seem to be targeting this particular group.

It's turned into a circus. It's a party atmosphere.

Georgi Parvanov

It's true we have not done all we could, ... But we Socialists have a new team now and we are the party of reform.

Howard Dean

They are the party of selfishness and self-absorption.

Tim Johnson

They are spending probably 100 times what they used to spend on parent engagement. We're just not getting any value out of that. How can you have a full-time, union person in the school as a parent coordinator and still not have a functioning P.T.A.?