Artie Quotes

1. "I figured the government wouldn't let poison flow from the taps. But in general, I'm too trusting of the government. I'm the polar opposite of the Tea Partiers. I have no problem with a nanny state. But in this case, the nanny state has been chatting on the cell phone and ignoring the baby as it plays with matches."
Author: A.J. Jacobs

2. "I don't really go to fashion parties; they're not my scene."
Author: Agyness Deyn

3. "Regarding Syria, we already call for dialogue between Syria and all parties concerned, in order to avoid any kind of escalation in the region which may expose the whole area to chaos."
Author: Ali Abdullah Saleh

4. "And you did all of this before I awakened?''Not all of us can afford to be layabouts ... You upper class types are all the same. Sleep until noon and then fritter your nights away.'She narrowed her eyes. 'I do not fritter my nights away.''Really? And what do you do at night?''I go to social events. Parties or galas. Sometimes a musicale. Or a charity event,' she tacked on with satisfaction.'Well, I must retract my frittering comment in that case.''It's not frittering. It's surviving."
Author: Anne Mallory

5. "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."
Author: Anthony Venn Brown

6. "I consider marriage a very important institution, but it is important when and if two people have found the person with whom they wish to spend the rest of their lives—a question of which no man or woman can be automatically certain. When one is certain that one's choice is final, then marriage is, of course, a desirable state. But this does not mean that any relationship based on less than total certainty is improper. I think the question of an affair or a marriage depends on the knowledge and the position of the two persons involved and should be left up to them. Either is moral, provided only that both parties take the relationship seriously and that it is based on values."
Author: Ayn Rand

7. "I love you, Tess McGee. I don't do big funny or heartfelt speeches in front of people at birthday parties, but I'm excellent in private alcoves in beer gardens." He paused. "Okay, that sounded really bad, what I mean is …"I kissed him into silence. I pressed my forehead against his with a sigh. "I love you, too, Toby. In fact, that's what I was going to tell you before we walked into the beer garden. Right before the really bad singing started."Toby chuckled. He let out a sigh of relief. "Ready to reminisce?"I whispered my final word before he closed the distance."Always."
Author: C.J. Duggan

8. "Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey 'people.' People say different things: so do instincts. Our instincts are at war. If it is held that the instinct for preserving the species should always be obeyed at the expense of other instincts, whence do we derive this rule of precedence? To listen to that instinct speaking in its own case and deciding in its own favour would be rather simple minded. Each instinct, if you listen to it, will claim to be gratified at the expense of all the rest. By the very act of listening to one rather than to others we have already prejudged the case. If we did not bring to the examination of our instincts a knowledge of their comparative dignity we could never learn it from them. And that knowledge cannot itself be instinctive: the judge cannot be one of the parties judged: or, if he is, the decision is worthless and there is no ground for placing preservation of the species above self-preservation or sexual appetite."
Author: C.S. Lewis

9. "I think whenever you see what may be the seeds of a third party, you need to be very skeptical because there's not a very good track record for third parties."
Author: Candy Crowley

10. "It's the big kids who get everything! They push you out of line at the show... They grab all the cake and ice cream at parties...""I guess that's just the way life is...""In the animal kingdom, we call it, 'survival of the fattest'!"
Author: Charles M. Schulz

11. "The artist one day falls through a hole in the brambles, and from that moment he is following the dark rapids of an underground river which may sometimes flow so near to the surface that the laughing picnic parties are heard above."
Author: Cyril Connolly

12. "Despite Lowell's determination to be 'surrounded by Catholics,' the couple instantly got swept up into the fast, loud current of atheist-Jewish-Marxist-hard-drinking-fast-talking literary New York. Philip Rahv and Nathalie Swan took a shine to Lowell and Stafford, and soon they were getting invited to the Rahv's combative, whiskey-soaked parties."
Author: David Laskin

13. "Finally, she loved someone and felt fairly confident that she was loved in return. If someone asked Emma, as they sometimes did at parties, how she and her husband had met, she told them: ‘We grew up together."
Author: David Nicholls

14. "A real partnership in which all parties help all others to be more fully themselves"
Author: Derrick Jensen

15. "Any story told in this machine age must be a story of fragments, for fragments are all the world has left: interrupted threads of talk at crowded cocktail parties; snatches of poems heard as a radio dial spins through its arc; incomplete commandments reclaimed from shattered stones."
Author: Dexter Palmer

16. "2) Members will attend events together as a group, including, but not limited to, Homecoming, Prom, parties, and other couply events, despite possibly being labeled as freaks and getting jealous looks from guys who wish we were their hot dates, but instead have to settle for some lame wannabe."
Author: Elizabeth Eulberg

17. "Croire qu'il lui appartient de dépasser sa condition et de s'orienter vers celle de surhomme, c'est oublier qu'il a du mal à tenir le coup en tant qu'homme, et qu'il n'y parvient qu'à force de tendre sa volonté, son ressort, au maximum."
Author: Emil Cioran

18. "L'homme lutte contre la peur mais, contrairement à ce qu'on répète toujours, cette peur n'est pas celle de la mort, car la peur de la mort, tout le monde ne l'éprouve pas, certains n'ayant aucune imagination, d'autres se croyant immortels, d'autres encore espérant des rencontres merveilleuses après leur trépas ; la seule peur universelle, la peur unique, celle qui conduit toutes nos pensées, car la peur de n'être rien. Parce que chaque individu a éprouvé ceci, ne fût-ce qu'une seconde au cours d'une journée : se rendre compte que, par nature, ne lui appartient aucune des identités qui le définissent, qu'il aurait pu ne pas être doté de ce qui le caractérise, qu'il s'en est fallu d'un cheveu qu'il naisse ailleurs, apprenne une autre langue, reçoive une éducation religieuse différente, qu'on l'élève dans une autre culture, qu'on l'instruise dans une autre idéologie, avec d'autres parents, d'autres tuteurs, d'autres modèles. Vertige !"
Author: Éric Emmanuel Schmitt

19. "I'm rarely invited to start-up parties, but who cares about their trinkets and apps anyway?"
Author: Evgeny Morozov

20. "Was yellow because she had been born in India and had always been ill in one way or another. Her father had held a position under the English Government and had always been busy and ill himself, and her mother had been a great beauty who cared only to go to parties and amuse herself with gay people. She had not wanted a little girl at all, and when Mary was born she handed her"
Author: Frances Hodgson Burnett

21. "In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule."
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche

22. "Miami is just really fun whenever I go there. It's like this post-apocalyptic Barbie world: everything is pink, and there're palm trees everywhere. But then there are also all these people in crazy sunglasses, warehouses with sick parties where all the girls are covered in spikes and black leather. It's a very weird place."
Author: Grimes

23. "Ce monde d'objets révèle de façon spectaculaire la partie non mortelle des êtres mortels. Tout se passe comme si la stabilité du monde se faisait transparente dans la permanence de l'art"
Author: Hannah Arendt

24. "Combien de gens exercent-ils le travail de leur choix ? Certains scientifiques, artistes, quelques travailleurs très qualifiés ou certaines professions libérales ont peut-être cette satisfaction, mais la plupart des gens ne sont pas libres de choisir leur activité. C'est la nécessité économique qui les y oblige. C'est pourquoi on peut parler de "travail aliéné". En outre, la plupart des travailleurs produisent des biens et des services destinés à devenir des marchandises qu'ils n'ont pas eux-mêmes choisi de produire et qui appartiennent à un autre : le capitaliste qui les emploie. Les travailleurs sont donc, en outre, parfaitement étrangers au produit de leur labeur. Le travail s'effectue dans des conditions industrielles modernes qui privilégient la concurrence plutôt que la collaboration et l'isolement plutôt que l'association. Les travailleurs sont donc également étrangers les uns aux autres. Concentrés dans les villes et les usines, ils sont pour finir étrangers à la nature."
Author: Howard Zinn

25. "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."
Author: Isaac Marion

26. "Depuis que tu es partie, j'ai pu compter jusqu'au sept millions neuf cent quarante-huit mille cents. Tu as eu le temps d'aller te cacher loin. Je cherche partout. Je ne te trouve pas, je désespère. La partie de cache-cache dure trop longtemps. Allez, tu as gagné, tu peux sortir de ta cachette. Je t'en supplie. J'ai perdu. J'ai tout perdu."
Author: Jean Louis Fournier

27. "Quand une fois la liberté a explosé dans une âme d'homme, les Dieux ne peuvent plus rien contre cet homme-là. Car c'est une affaire d'homme, et c'est aux autres hommes — à eux seuls — qu'il appartient de le laisser courir ou de l'étrangler."
Author: Jean Paul Sartre

28. "Hey, listen,' I say. " Fascinating as this is, we've got to go now. I have to collect the invites for my funeral."That shuts them up. Fiona looks astonished." Really? " Yeah." I grab Zoey's arm. "It's a shame i can't be there myself - i like parties. Text me if you think of any good hymns!"
Author: Jenny Downham

29. "Parties that ended with stabbing weren't part of the long term plan. Neither was being tied to a man in prison, working as a stripper, or worrying about whether or not I was safe without a goddamned brand across my back like a fucking cow."
Author: Joanna Wylde

30. "Well, Luce, my dear, you may have gone to boarding school parties, but you've never seen a throw-down like reform school kids do it."
Author: Lauren Kate

31. "Les dispositifs et les ordres les mieux combinés, les plus profondément médités, semblent très mauvais et n'importe quel savant tacticien les critique d'un air entendu quand ils n'ont pas donné la victoire; les pires dispositifs, les mesures les plus contestables paraissent excellents, et des gens sérieux consacrent des volumes à prouver leurs mérites, quand le gain de la bataille s'en est suivi.(Guerre et Paix, livre troisième, 1ère partie, ch. XXVIII)"
Author: Leo Tolstoy

32. "I like to browse in Cartier, Chanel and Gucci and if something special grabs my eye I splash out."
Author: Lisa Snowdon

33. "I know that speaking with parties, which I do, but not very often, is seen by many as a 'contamination.'"
Author: Mario Monti

34. "At first it's bliss. It's drunken, heady, intoxicating. It swallows the people we were - not particuarly wonderful people, but people who did our best, more or less - and spits out the monsters we are becoming.Our friends despise us. We are an epic. Everything is grand, crashing, brilliant, blinding. It's the Golden Age of Hollywood, and we are a legend in our own minds, and no one outside can fail to see that we are headed for hell, and we won't listen, we say they don't understand, we pour more wine, go to the parties, we sparkle, fly all over the country, we're on an adventure, unstoppable, we've found each other and we race through our days like Mr. Toad in his yellow motorcar, with no idea where the brakes are and to hell with it anyway, we are on fire, drunk with something we call love."
Author: Marya Hornbacher

35. "I went to a couple Academy Awards parties and I was definitely like, 'Whoa, no one will talk to me.'"
Author: Matt Stone

36. "Marriage is an arrangement between like-minded parties. It's a partnership, not a love affair. I never lied to you or kept anything of importance from you."She looked at him then, almost stunned, as if she didn't recognize him. He didn't like it. Not at all."
Author: Mira Lyn Kelly

37. "However, now she was a schoolgirl no longer. She had discovered how to manage her hair, had been to one or two parties and a night club, and laid on lipstick with the idea that each layer was a layer of sophistication."
Author: Monica Dickens

38. "Clay, if anyone followed anyone, it was me tagging along after you. I didn't dare order you around.""Load of shit," he muttered, but she thought she heard a softening in his tone. "You fucking made me attend tea parties."She remembered his threat before the first one: "Tell anyone and I'll eat you and use your bones as toothpicks."~ Talin and Clay dialogue"
Author: Nalini Singh

39. "Bismarck had cunningly taught the parties not to aim at national appeal but to represent interests. They remained class or sectional pressure-groups under the Republic. This was fatal, for it made the party system, and with it democratic parliamentarianism, seem a divisive rather than a unifying factor. Worse: it meant the parties never produced a leader who appealed beyond the narrow limits of his own following."
Author: Paul Johnson

40. "In my experience of these things, parties which shout about dirty tricks and the like tend to do so because they fear a direct hit in some vulnerable part of their political anatomy."
Author: Peter Mandelson

41. "What I don't like about office Christmas parties is looking for a job the next day."
Author: Phyllis Diller

42. "Oh, so that's why you're up here. For a pity party.""This isn't a joke. I'm serious." I could tell Lissa was getting angry. It was trumping her earlier distress.He shrugged and leaned casually against the sloping wall. "So am I. I love pity parties. I wish I'd brought the hats. What do you want to mope about first? How it's going to take you a whole day to be popular and loved again? How you'll have to wait a couple weeks before Hollister can ship out some new clothes? If you spring for rush shipping, it might not be so long."
Author: Richelle Mead

43. "A simple leather jacket... has gotten me through cocktail parties in New York and cold nights in Afghanistan."
Author: Ronan Farrow

44. "I've been having a lot of dance parties alone in my apartment while learning to cook. Part of my quest to be an attractive single is to learn how to cook and sew and get a license."
Author: Sara Quin

45. "I throw the best parties."
Author: Scott Patterson

46. "We must fight for our country and forget our differences. There can be but two parties: the party of patriots and the party of traitors ..."
Author: Seth Grahame Smith

47. "In spite of her depression, Mirabelle likes to think of herself as humourous. She can, when the occasion calls, become a wisecracker and buoyant party girl. This mood, Mirabelle thinks, sometimes makes her the centre of attention at parties and gatherings. The truth is that these episodes of gaiety merely raise her to normal, but for Mirabelle the feeling is so exceptional that she believes herself to be standing out."
Author: Steve Martin

48. "And political parties, overanxious for vote catching, become tolerant to intolerant groups."
Author: Wendell Willkie

49. "Having now reached a point where danger might be reasonably apprehended from strolling war parties of Indians, spies were kept in advance and strict diligence observed in the duty of sentinels."
Author: William Henry Ashley

50. "Dinner parties are still highly popular, and I believe they always will be."
Author: Yotam Ottolenghi

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