Famous Quotes & Sayings

Florence Welch

Going to parties usually makes me feel depressed, just because I have such social fear after meeting people.

Florence Nightingale

The time is come when women must do something more than the "domestic hearth," which means nursing the infants, keeping a pretty house, having a good dinner and an entertaining party.

Fletcher Knebel

The convention is the voice, the bone and the sinews of a political party-and sometimes it even nominates an Abraham Lincoln.

Feisal Abdul Rauf

There are moderates in Israel. There are moderates in Iran, there are moderates in the Republican Party, moderates in the Democratic Party. What we need to do is we need link all of these moderates together and to figure out a way by which this particular coalition can speak to important issues to marginalize the voice of the extremists.

Fay Weldon

Nowadays most people wear black most of the time anyway: go to a literary party and one would imagine everyone there was in perpetual mourning for their lives.

Fawn M. Brodie

Superficial parallels were drawn between the Church and the Nazi Party, with its emphasis on active involvement by every member. The women's auxiliary of the Party and the Hitler Youth were regarded by some as secular equivalents to the Church's Relief Society, MIA, and the Scouting programs.

Fatou Bensouda

I think my track record speaks for myself... I have been endorsed by the African Union, but I am a prosecutor for 121 states parties and this is what I intend to be until the end of my mandate.

Fareed Zakaria

Thanks to the Communist Party of China, we now know the path to poverty alleviation is Capitalism.

Fannie Lou Hamer

All of this is on account we want to register [sic], to become first-class citizens, and if the Freedom Democratic Party is not seated now, I question America. Is this America, the land of the free and the home of the brave where we have to sleep with our telephones off the hooks because our lives be threatened daily because we want to live as decent human beings - in America?

F. Murray Abraham

Whenever there were parties, I wasn't invited because I began to be like that character. In a way, that contributed to the success of the performance.

F. Murray Abraham

I love parties. I love a good time.

Ezra Miller

Life is a grand party.

Ezra Taft Benson

We must be devoted to sound principles in word and deed: principle above party, principle above pocketbook, principle above popularity.

Evangelos Venizelos

I am the head of the Socialists, but the party is not my property.

Eugene McCarthy

Saying we should keep the two-party system simply because it is working is like saying the Titanic voyage was a success because a few people survived on life rafts.

Francis Maude

Our party has known great, great days. But we have no God-given right to survive, let alone to succeed.

Francis Maude

The party at its best has always been a modern party.

Francis Maude

It is simply the view, and a view I think shared by most members of the party, that it is very difficult to have a leader that does not command the support of the parliamentary party.

Francis Parkman

We were now, as I before mentioned, upon this St. Joseph's trail. It was evident, by the traces, that large parties were a few days in advance of us; and as we too supposed them to be Mormons, we had some apprehension of interruption.

Francis Collins

I think history would say that medical research has, throughout many changes of parties, remained as one of the shining lights of bipartisan agreement, that people are concerned about health for themselves, for their families, for their constituents.

Francis Bacon

It is a good point of cunning for a man to shape the answer he would have in his own words and propositions, for it makes the other party stick the less.

Floyd Abrams

The government understands - every government, every administration, both parties, understands - that that power, they just don't have.

Foxy Brown

I'm not at every party; I'm not seen everywhere. That's why people still care about my brand.

Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

Las Vegas is the boxing capital. During a Floyd Mayweather fight weekend, you can shop, party, stay out late and do anything you want. The city of Las Vegas has everything.

Fran Lebowitz

[On the writers she admires:] I prefer dead writers, because I don't see them at parties.

George Washington

A tribute . . . is due to the talents, the rectitude, and the patriotism, which adorn the characters selected to devise and adopt [the Constitution]. In these honorable qualifications I behold the surest pledges that as on one side no local prejudices or attachments no separate views, nor party animosities, will misdirect the comprehensive and equal eye which ought to watch over this great assemblage of communities and interests; so, on another, that the foundation of our national policy will be laid in the pure and immutable principles of private morality.

George Washington

[The spirit of party] serves always to distract the public councils and enfeeble the public administration. It agitates the community with ill-founded jealousies and false alarms, kindles the animosity of one part against another.

George Washington

The alternate triumphs of different parties ... make the public administration the mirror of the ill-concerted and incongruous projects of faction, rather than the organ of consistent and wholesome plans digested by common counsels.

George Washington

Let me ... warn you in the most solemn manner against the baneful effects of the spirit of party.

George Washington

I was no party man myself, and the first wish of my heart was, if parties did exist, to reconcile them.

George Washington

I have already intimated to you the danger of parties in the state, with particular reference to the founding of them on geographical discriminations. Let me now take a more comprehensive view, and warn you in the most solemn manner against the baneful effects of the spirit of party, generally.

George Washington

If we mean to support the liberty and independence which has cost us so much blood and treasure to establish, we must drive far away the demon of party spirit and local reproach.

George Washington

The States separately have very inadequate ideas of the present danger. Party disputes and personal quarrels are the great business of the day, whilst the concerns of the nation are secondary.