Party Quotes - Page 22

• She didn't want to have anything to do with the party. She was tired of feeling like she didn't fit in, but she didn't want to go home, either, because she was a tired of being lonely and she was a little drunk.

  Candace Bushnell

  Lonely, Home, Tired

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• I don't in any way underestimate the difficulties, because it's only gotten harder. But I do think you just have to go into politics with the attitude that you're going to speak clearly and authentically about what you see the country needs...and seek out whatever possible partners you can, even in the other party. I've looked at successful presidents going back. Some of our most successful governed through periods when their party was in charge, and when the other party was in charge. There's no magic formula.

  Hillary Clinton

  Country, Attitude, Successful

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• Many respectable physicists said that they weren't going to stand for this -- partly because it was a debasement of science, but mostly because they didn't get invited to those sort of parties.

  Douglas Adams

  Said, Physicist, Respectable

  Douglas Adams (2012). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Original Radio Scripts”, p.53, Pan Macmillan

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• The enemy is not individuals, churches, 'ex-gay' organisations or political parties; the enemy is ignorance. Change is created by focusing our energies on overcoming the latter instead of attacking the former.

  Anthony Venn-Brown

  Ignorance, Gay, Political

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• One of the delights beyond the grasp of youth is that of Not Going. Not to have an invitation for the dance, the party, the picnic, the excursion is to be diminished. To have an invitation and then not to be able to go -- oh cursed spite! Now I do not care the rottenest fig whether I receive an invitation or not. After years of illusion, I finally decided I was missing nothing by Not Going. I no longer care whether I am missing anything or not.

  J. B. Priestley

  Years, Missing, Delight

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• So it’s your death suit.” “Correct. Don’t you have a death outfit?” “Yeah,” I said. “It’s a dress I bought for my fifteenth birthday party. But I don’t wear it on dates.” His eyes lit up. “We’re on a date?” he asked. I looked down, feeling bashful. “Don’t push it.

  John Green

  Eye, Feelings, Dresses

  "The Fault in Our Stars". Book by Jogn Green, January 10, 2012.

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• Except for the small revolutionary groups which exist in all countries, the whole world was determined upon preventing revolution in Spain. In particular the Communist Party, with Soviet Russia behind it, had thrown its whole weight against the revolution. It was the Communist thesis that revolution at this stage would be fatal and that what was to be aimed at in Spain was not workers' control, but bourgeois democracy. It hardly needs pointing out why 'liberal' capitalist opinion took the same line.

  George Orwell

  Country, Russia, Democracy

  George Orwell (2016). “Homage to Catalonia / Down and Out in Paris and London”, p.54, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• In perpetrating a revolution, there are two requirements: someone or something to revolt against and someone to actually show up and do the revolting. Dress is usually casual and both parties may be flexible about time and place, but if either faction fails to attend, the whole enterprise is likely to come off badly.

  Woody Allen

  Two, Dresses, May

  Woody Allen (2007). “The Insanity Defense: The Complete Prose”, Random House Incorporated

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• Krystal’s slow passage up the school had resembled the passage of a goat through the body of a boa constrictor, being highly visible and uncomfortable for both parties concerned.

  J. K. Rowling

  Witty, School, Body

  J.K. Rowling (2012). “The Casual Vacancy”, p.45, Hachette UK

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• This isn’t happening to you, princess,” Sabine snapped before I could do more than shake my head. “This is happening to us. While you spent the past few months prancing around in ignorant bliss, we were all being possessed, or kidnapped, or stalked by this hellion. So dry your tears and take off the tiara, because this is a call to arms, not a pity party. You’re not going to find any sympathy here.

  Rachel Vincent

  Princess, Past, Ignorant

  Rachel Vincent (2012). “Before I Wake”, p.236, Harlequin

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• But do you know why we are always more just and generous toward the dead? The reason is simple. With them there is no obligation. They leave us free and we can take our time, fit the testimonial between a cocktail party and a nice little mistress, in our spare time, in short.

  Albert Camus

  Nice, Simple, Mistress

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Fall”, p.33, Vintage

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• If I had been a different sort of person, maybe less impressionable, less intense, less fearful, less utterly dependent upon the perceptions of others - maybe then I would not have bought the cultural party line that thinness is the be-all and end-all of goals. Maybe if my family had not been in utter chaos most of the time, maybe if my parents were a little better at dealing with their own lives maybe if I'd gotten help sooner, or if I'd gotten different help, maybe if I didn't so fiercely cherish my secret, or if I were not such a good liar, or were not quite so empty inside... maybe.

  Marya Hornbacher

  Liars, Goal, Parent

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• If I’m at a party where I’m not enjoying myself, I will put some cookies in my jacket pocket and leave without saying good-bye.

  Mindy Kaling

  Bye, Pockets, Cookies

  Mindy Kaling (2011). “Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns)”, p.218, Three Rivers Press

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• Too bad. There's a party on the coast. I thought we could go." He actually sounded sincere. ( a bit after) I affected a yawn. "Well, like I said, it's a school night." In hopes of convincing myself more than him, I added, " if this party is something you'd be interested in, I can almost guarantee I won't be." There, I though. Case closed- page 77

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  School, Night, Guarantees

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• I’ve never really had a party before.” “Why did you have one now?” I say, just to keep him talking. He gives a half laugh. “I thought if I had a party, you would come.

  Lauren Oliver

  Talking, Giving, Laughing

  Lauren Oliver (2010). “Before I Fall”, p.167, Hachette UK

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• I think Democrats made a mistake running away from liberalism. Liberalism, uh, Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman, John and Robert Kennedy - that's what the Democratic party ought to reach for.

  Theodore C. Sorensen

  Running, Mistake, Thinking

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• All I can say is that with business and the interest of any party before me, I will consider and apply the law as it is written by Congress and informed by precedent.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  Law, Congress, Precedent

  Hearings, latimesblogs.latimes.com. July 14, 2009.

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• Reaching a conclusion has to start with what the parties are arguing, but examining in all situations carefully the facts as they prove them or not prove them, the record as they create it, and then making a decision that is limited to what the law says on the facts before the judge.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  Law, Judging, Decision

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• Beating the tea party gang is more important than who does the beating.

  Arlen Specter

  Tea, Important, Doe

  "Specter warns of tea party 'takeover'" by Andy Barr, www.politico.com. May 18, 2010.

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• My tenure in the Senate was really as an independent and whichever, regardless of party label.

  Arlen Specter

  Independent, Labels, Tenure

  "Specter: A Democrat, and in between, a Republican", www.foxnews.com. January 2, 2011.

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• Whatever my party affiliation, I will continue to be guided by President Kennedy's statement that sometimes party asks too much.

  Arlen Specter

  President, Too Much, Sometimes

  Sen. Arlen Specter, Charles Robbins (2012). “Life Among the Cannibals: A Political Career, a Tea Party Uprising, and the End of Governing As We Know It”, p.241, Macmillan

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• When I supported the stimulus package, I knew that it would not be popular with the Republican Party.

  Arlen Specter

  Republican, Stimulus, Packages

  "Specter's statement: "Not defined" by party". www.politico.com. April 28, 2009.

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• Technology can be our best friend, and technology can also be the biggest party pooper of our lives. It interrupts our own story, interrupts our ability to have a thought or a daydream, to imagine something wonderful, because we're too busy bridging the walk from the cafeteria back to the office on the cell phone.

  Steven Spielberg

  Technology, Phones, Cells

  2002 In Wired, Jun.

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• While their fiscal views aren't mine, the moderates are the last reasonable voice in the current Republican Party.

  Eliot Spitzer

  Views, Voice, Lasts

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• The sports arena Julie calls home is unaccountably large, perhaps one of those dual-event 'super venues' built for an era when the greatest quandary facing the world was where to put all the parties.

  Isaac Marion

  Sports, Home, Events

  Isaac Marion (2016). “Warm Bodies and The New Hunger: A Special 5th Anniversary Edition”, p.127, Simon and Schuster

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