Nelson A. Miles Quotes

It is unfair to suppose that one party has invariably acted rightly, and that the other is responsible for every wrong that has been committed.

Nelson A. Miles

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• I'm a Virgo and I'm more - I don't want to say 'negative' - but I'm the girl who thinks no one's coming to my birthday party, no one's buying my clothes, no one's reading my book, no one's watching my show - that's just how I think.

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • Book
  • Girl
  • Reading

• There are many things which swallow up men's thoughts while they live, which they will think little of when they are dying. Hundreds are wholly absorbed in political schemes and seem to care for nothing but the advancement of their own party. Myriads are buried in business and money matters and seem to neglect everything else but this world.

  

  J. C. Ryle
  • Up
  • World
  • Men

• The right-wing of the Republican party isn't so much a political agenda as a plea for help.

  

  Larry Flynt
  • Help
  • Political
  • Party

• I learned that the hardest party to pull off successfully is Saturday night dinner. This meal is expected to be elaborate: appetizers, first course, dinner, dessert, and coffee. People arrive at 7:30 or 8 p.m. and stay for hours - definitely past my bedtime - and they all go home exhausted.

  

  Ina Garten
  • People
  • Home
  • Night

• Whenever I went to a wedding or a party, girls kept complaining about their shoes. I love to dance, and I wanted them to have shoes they could keep on all night.

  

  Edgardo Osorio
  • Night
  • Party
  • Dance

• Patriotism has no appeal to us; justice has. Party has no weight with us; principle has. Loyalty is meaningless; it depends on what one is loyal to.

  

  A. Philip Randolph
  • Party
  • Justice
  • Loyalty

• 2016 is going to be a fight. A fight between conservatism and a Democrat Party that is undermining the very character of our nation.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Character
  • Party
  • Fight

• It's insanity for a party that believes in freedom to allow some Republicans to seize an agenda that is totally alien to the agenda that was established in the election.

  

  Malcolm Wallop
  • Freedom
  • Party
  • Election

• So I am, in fact, very optimistic about the future of my federal party.

  

  Dalton McGuinty
  • Future
  • Party
  • Optimistic

• Thus in such a Labour Party there can be no question of independent policy.

  

  Karl Radek
  • Party
  • Question
  • Independent

• I'm not a party guy, and I'm not a Hollywood guy, either.

  

  Larry the Cable Guy
  • Guy
  • Party
  • Hollywood

• My party trick is that I can get ready to go to the party really quickly. I'm actually a woman that can have a shower, dry and style her hair, do her make-up and get dressed in under an hour.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Up
  • Party
  • Style

• The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work and then they get elected and prove it.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Work
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  • Politics

• To those who would divide us or drive us to the extremes of either political party, I remind you that Maryland has been called 'a state of middle temperament.' Our politics need that middle temperament as well.

  

  Larry Hogan
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  • Politics

• It is very difficult to be taken seriously when you're introduced at a party to somebody as the fourth Mrs. Rex Harrison.

  

  Rachel Roberts
  • You
  • Party
  • Taken

• As I got older, I became so self conscious about my birthmark that I was very hesitant about going to a pool party, because I didn't want my makeup to rub off.

  

  Hannah Storm
  • Party
  • Makeup
  • Self

• One of my favorite - well, my favorite, favorite, absolute favorite event to go to is Alfre Woodard has a party that I call the blacktress party. It's, like, black actresses that either have been nominated for an Oscar or should have been, and it sort of is just a night where we all get in a room and we get to celebrate each other.

  

  Gabourey Sidibe
  • Night
  • Black
  • Party

• No party has a monopoly on wisdom. No democracy works without compromise. But when Governor Romney and his allies in Congress tell us we can somehow lower our deficit by spending trillions more on new tax breaks for the wealthy - well, you do the math. I refuse to go along with that. And as long as I'm President, I never will.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Long
  • Party
  • Wisdom

• Communists must use the democratic method of persuasion and education when working among the laboring people and must on no account resort to commandism or coercion. The Chinese Communist Party faithfully adheres to this Marxist-Leninist principle.

  

  Mao Zedong
  • People
  • Education
  • Party

• When I turned 40, I invited Johnny Cash to my party, even though I knew there was gonna be 200 people roasting a pig and wild as can be. He didn't come, but the next day, I got a bowl of chili he'd made and a note that said, 'John, I'd love to come to your party, but that would mean I would have to leave my house.'

  

  John Prine
  • House
  • Party

• 'Big Bang' is unbelievable; I'm blessed, but it's not the only thing in my life.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Life
  • Blessed
  • My Life

• I love being Jewish, but I think that our generation is the first generation that crossed that line between being a cultural versus a practicing Jew.

  

  Bryan Fogel

• I always thought 'plus-size' wasn't a term that was negative - it wasn't something that I felt was something that was making me any different or making me feel like I was lesser than - and I found a community through it.

  

  Barbie Ferreira
  • Different
  • Community

• It is unfair to suppose that one party has invariably acted rightly, and that the other is responsible for every wrong that has been committed.

  

  Nelson A. Miles
  • Party