Party Quotes - Page 16

• Prayer adds an element of surprise to your life that is more fun than a surprise party or surprise gift or surprise romance. In fact, prayer turns life into a party, into a gift, into a romance.

  Mark Batterson

  Prayer, Fun, Romance

  Mark Batterson (2012). “Draw the Circle: The 40 Day Prayer Challenge”, p.84, Zondervan

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• Money is the anthem, of succes, so put on your mascara and your party dress

  Lana Del Rey

  Dresses, Anthem, Succes

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• It's not the loving that hurts this girl; it's the understanding of it for what it is, that it will never be returned in the same way, that threatens to destroy her. But to unload the words - "I love you" - on an innocent party who didn't ask for it, to reach across the dark space and touch him - it's like the world she knows could end if she dared speak these words, dared make such a move.

  Rachel Cohn

  Love, Girl, Hurt

  Rachel Cohn (2011). “You Know Where to Find Me”, p.94, Simon and Schuster

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• I hear in the big city, girls dress up like sexy witches and sexy vampires and sexy Easter bunnies, and go to parties where they do all sorts of scandalous things," Kami said. "Luckily you and me, we got to walk around our town looking at our neighbours' gardens and remarking 'My, that's a good-looking scarecrow' to each other. I guess this is why our natures are so beautiful and unspoilt.

  Sarah Rees Brennan

  Beautiful, Girl, Sexy

  Sarah Rees Brennan (2013). “Untold (The Lynburn Legacy Book 2)”, p.12, Random House Books for Young Readers

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• A red traffic light loomed, and Cecilia slammed her foot on the brake. The fact that Polly no longer wanted a pirate party was breathtakingly insignificant in comparison to that poor man (thirty!) crashing to the ground for the freedom that Cecilia took for granted, but right now, she couldn’t pause to honor his memory, because a last-minute change of party theme was unacceptable. That’s what happened when you had freedom. You lost your mind over a pirate party.

  Liane Moriarty

  Memories, Men, Feet

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• We are so not breaking out the violins and pity partying.

  Gena Showalter

  Violin, Pity

  Gena Showalter (2015). “The White Rabbit Chronicles: Alice in Zombieland\Through the Zombie Glass\The Queen of Zombie Hearts”, p.126, Harlequin

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• And every book, you find, has its own social group--friends of its own it wants to introduce you to, like a party in the library that need never, ever end.

  Caitlin Moran

  Book, Library, Groups

  Caitlin Moran (2011). “How To Be a Woman”, p.74, Random House

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• It is a truth universally acknowledged that one only comes up with clever, cutting remarks long after the other party is happily slumbering away.

  Lauren Willig

  Clever, Cutting, Long

  Lauren Willig (2011). “The Secret History of the Pink Carnation”, p.232, Allison & Busby

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• The full potentialities of human fury cannot be reached until a friend of both parties tactfully intervenes.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Anger, Rage, Fury

  "The Skeptic as a Critic" by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1929.

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• Christmas begins about the first of December with an office party and ends when you finally realize what you spent, around April fifteenth of the next year.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Funny, Christmas, Money

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Modern Manners: An Etiquette Book for Rude People”, p.136, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• It is very vulgar to talk about one's own business. Only people like stockbrokers do that, and then only at dinner parties.

  Oscar Wilde

  Business, People, Dinner

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• Emergency dance party--go away.

  Rainbow Rowell

  Going Away, Emergencies, Dance Party

  Rainbow Rowell (2016). “The Rainbow Rowell YA Collection”, p.384, St. Martin's Griffin

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• I thought you two might be up against it. Benedict Lightwood’s parties have a reputation for danger. When I heard you were here—” “We’re well equipped to handle danger,” Tessa said. Magnus eyed her bosom openly. “I can see that,” he said. "Armed to the teeth, as it were.

  Cassandra Clare

  Two, Teeth, Might

  Cassandra Clare (2013). “The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess”, p.732, Simon and Schuster

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• In actual fact those who do not care for politics and sit on the fence do indeed side for a political party: The ruling party.

  Max Frisch

  Freedom, Political, Democracy

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• Blue was a fanciful, but sensible thing. Like a platypus, or one of those sandwiches that had been cut into circles for a fancy tea party.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Cutting, Circles, Blue

  Maggie Stiefvater (2013). “The Dream Thieves (The Raven Cycle, Book 2)”, p.72, Scholastic Inc.

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• Of all kinds of credulity, the most obstinate is that of party-spirit; of men, who, being numbered, they know not why, in any party, resign the use of their own eyes and ears, and resolve to believe nothing that does not favor those whom they profess to follow.

  Samuel Johnson

  Believe, Eye, Men

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• Republicans are not a political party. It's a mental condition.

  Jesse Ventura

  Political, Republican, Conditions

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• You can have solid third party politics, but the problem is you're all lumped in to all the fringe groups. That's a stereotype that happens.

  Jesse Ventura

  Groups, Problem, Stereotype

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• I do not support the third party movement anymore. I now advocate the abolishment of all political parties. We've allowed the parties to take over the government.

  Jesse Ventura

  Government, Support, Political

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• I think that when Americans go to vote, states should not list what party the candidates are affiliated with. That would require voters to actually think and get to know a candidate instead of voting for their favorite gang. 'Oh, this guy is a Republican, so he must be good.'

  Jesse Ventura

  Thinking, Guy, Voting

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• I don't see anybody categorized as a 'fashion diva,' except for me! And I like that. I am thought of as a diva because I wear an evening dress and I take care of my look when I go out. I go to parties regarding business, not for fun. And that's why they call me a 'diva.'

  Donatella Versace

  Fashion, Fun, Care

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I don't think the face of the Democratic Party is Nancy Pelosi.

  Tom Vilsack

  Thinking, Faces, Nancy

  "Central Casting" by Jeffrey Goldberg, www.newyorker.com. May 29, 2006.

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• You know when you throw a party, you think people will show up and no one will like each other. It's like that with music - parts of your musical psyche have never met other parts. You wonder if you should get them together.

  Tom Waits

  Thinking, People, Musical

  "Tom Waits: 'I look like hell but I'm going to see where it gets me" by Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. October 22, 2011.

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• Perhaps my children will one day pledge their loyalty to the Republican Party. Or perhaps they'll dismiss my liberalism as mild pap, and become anarchists. Either way may well be a reaction to my manipulation, my values. We are all the product of the indoctrination we received at the hands of our parents, even when we are repudiating that ideology.

  Ayelet Waldman

  Loyalty, Children, Hands

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• Early on, I played one or two disturbed people, and I guess I must have been good at it, because it stuck. But, you know, I'm a regular guy. I stay home a lot, I make an effort to keep a distance from the whole social thing, the openings, the parties. I try to live in a calm way.

  Christopher Walken

  Distance, Home, Two

  "Christopher Walken: 'No matter who I play, it's me" by Sean O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. December 1, 2012.

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