Famous Quotes & Sayings

Howard Staunton

Each player, it will be observed, has eight superior Pieces or officers, and eight minor ones which are called Pawns; and, for the purpose of distinction, the Pieces and Pawns of one party are of a different color from those of the other.

Howard Schultz

I'm much more concerned about America than the Democratic Party.

Howard Fineman

A political party is dying before our eyes-and I don't mean the Democrats. I'm talking about the mainstream media, which is being destroyed by the opposition.

Howard Dean

The fact that the president was willing to reveal classified information for political gain and put the interests of his political party ahead of America's security shows that he can no longer be trusted to keep America safe.

Honore de Balzac

Whoever does not visit Paris regularly will never really be elegant.

Neil Kinnock

He addressed a grown-up party in a grown-up way. It's not going to repair anyone's gastric ulcer, but at least they know where he stands.

Jack Osbourne

Where I felt comfortable was being the one that everyone liked to party with. And it was kind of the way I could fit in.

James Callaghan

The rule of law should be upheld by all political parties. They should neither advise others to break the law, nor encourage others to do so even when they strongly disagree with the legislation put forward by the government of the day.

Francis Quarles

If thou desire to purchase honor with thy wealth, consider first how that wealth became thine; if thy labor got it, let thy wisdom keep it; if oppression found it, let repentance restore it; if thy parent left it, let thy virtues deserve it; so shall thy honor be safer, better and cheaper.

Hugh Jackman

I just love making a fool out of myself. I made my living as a clown at kids' parties for about three years.

Horace Mann

We who are engaged in the sacred cause of education are entitled to look upon all parents as having given hostages to our cause.

Gloria Steinem

we are the women our parents warned us against, and we are proud

Gloria Steinem

Frequently people just vote for the party out of power because they're disappointed or angry at what is happening at the moment.

Harry S Truman

The Republican Party either corrupts its liberals or it expels them.

J. K. Rowling

Every writer prefers good reviews over bad ones, and every writer wants to have lots of readers. But if it doesn't happen, that's fine too. Perhaps I won't throw a party then; I'll simply go home and keep writing.

J. K. Rowling

Nobody's ever asked me to a party before, as a friend. Is that why you dyed your eyebrow, for the party? Should I do mine too?

J. K. Rowling

There was a point where I really felt I had 'penniless divorcee lone parent' tattooed on my head.

Guillermo Cabrera Infante

My parents were founders of the Cuban Communist Party, and I grew up extremely poor.

Jessica Valenti

My problem with the wedding industry started when I studied in college and liked to have the television on in the background, and 'A Wedding Story' on TLC always came on, and I'd get irritated that the story of two people making a lifelong commitment to each other could be encapsulated in a half-hour show about the party they throw.

I don't think that we are putting any more weight on this particular theory than we have on any others,

Comerica Park a bandbox. Who would have thought?

Hunter S. Thompson

What the hell is the sense of trying to hold the Democratic party together, if it's really a party of expediency, something that's put together every four years?

People are going to have to find parking on the streets or the municipal lot.

Gore Vidal

There is only one party in the United States: the Property party... and it has two right wings: Republican and Democrat.

We are not in party politics anyway, because if we do stand we will be standing as independents.

We did not receive any request from them to review a particular size standard for that particular program.

We don't have any parking meters that reset.

Cindy Sheehan

We can't let somebody rise to the top who will pardon these war criminals. Because they need to go to prison for what they've done in this world. We can't have a pardon. They need to pay for what they've done.

Military organization, like religious organization, can be seen as a paradigm of organization in general.

Aeschylus

He hears but half who hears one party only.

Adam Pally

I am what they call a chubby-skinny guy. I appear to be normal and have the look of an in-shape man, but if we were to go to a pool party I would go with my shirt on.

Adam Baldwin

You can't control the audience. When you're on the air and they're not coming to the party, it's time to shut down the party.

Ludwig von Mises

There is but one means available to improve the material conditions of mankind: to accelerate the growth of capital accumulated as against the growth in population. The greater the amount of capital invested per head of the worker, the more and better goods can be produced and consumed. This is what capitalism, the much abused profit system, has brought about and brings about daily anew. Yet, most present-day governments and political parties are eager to destroy this system.