Quotes of: Conservative-party Keyword

The more you observe politics, the more you've got to admit that each party is worse than the other.

Will Rogers

Two months later at a party, Bernard pulled me into a closet and proposed. I said yes.

Shelley Duvall

Crying out loud but there is no one to regret it , Smile a little and they'll join the party

Life

Later the place was as deserted as Malcolm Muggeridge's Christmas party of fellow intellectuals.

William Donaldson

And I always voted at my party's call, and I never thought of thinking for myself at all.

William Gilbert

I always liked parties. You meet people; you can have fun.

Zsa Zsa Gabor

Political parties don't work when people just announce what they are doing and expect everyone else to follow.

Tony Abbott

Clinging to any form of conservatism can be dangerous. Become too conservative and you are unprepared for surprises. You cannot depend on luck. Logic is blind and often knows only its own past. Logic is good for playing chess but is often too slow fo...

Chapterhouse: Dune

So when modern-day religious conservatives wax nostalgic about how marriage is a sacred tradition that reaches back into history for thousands of uninterrupted years, they are absolutely correct, but in only one respect—only if they happen to be ta...

Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage

Above them, stars shine in constellations that Jenny recognizes from the ceiling of her father's house, the ones Mom and Dad helped her put up when she was in third grade. Constellations with names like Fire Truck and Ladybug Come Home, constellation...

Conservation of Shadows

By definition, you can’t experience your own death. Death is the end of consciousness. And consciousness persists. In the language of physics, consciousness is conserved. I am the one who wakes up in the morning. Always. Every morning. I don’t di...

Divided by Infinity

The chambermaid believed in courtly love. A book's physical self was sacrosanct to her, its form inseparable from its content; her duty as a lover was Platonic adoration, a noble but doomed attempt to conserve forever the state of perfect chastity in...

Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader

I grew up in one of the most socially conservative neighborhoods in Ohio, and my parents were traditional Catholics. But in her old age, my mother got her home health care from a guy who was gay, who was wonderful to her. Before she died, she rode a ...

Gail Collins

'Summer of Love: Art of the Psychedelic Era,' the Whitney Museum's 40th-anniversary trip down counterculture memory lane, provides moments of buzzy fun, but it'll leave you only comfortably numb. For starters, it may be the whitest, straightest, most...

Jerry Saltz

There was a car in front of me driving all conservatively, and then, lo and behold, I saw that he had a Romney bumper sticker.

The Accidental Caregiver: How I Met, Loved, and Lost Legendary Holocaust Refugee Maria Altmann

I'm a Christian first, and a mean-spirited, bigoted conservative second, and don't you ever forget it. You know who else was kind of "divisive" in terms of challenging the status quo and the powers-that-be of his day? Jesus Christ.

If Democrats Had Any Brains, They'd Be Republicans

No pretendo que consientas mis palabras, de ser así, las escribiría de manera que pudieras comprenderlas. Sólo espero que las conserves, y las mantengas a la mano, o frescas en tu memoria, para que el día en que seas capaz de aceptarlas, te sean ...

la manzana equivocada

Placing the burden on the individual to break down doors in finding better education for a child is attractive to conservatives because it reaffirms their faith in individual ambition and autonomy. But to ask an individual to break down doors that we...

Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools

Watching middle-class conservatives vote for politicians who've proudly pledged to screw them and their children over fills me with the same exasperated contempt I feel for rabbits who zigzag wildly back and forth in front of my tires instead of just...

We Learn Nothing

The history written, taught, and sworn to as ‘the unvarnished truth’ by the establishment—any establishment, left or right, conservative or liberal, capitalist or socialist or fascist—is generally revisionist, narrow in perspective, monolithi...

Thomas W. Knowles

My memories of Kabul are vastly different than the way it is when I go there now. My memories are of the final years before everything changed. When I grew up in Kabul, it couldn't be mistaken for Beirut or Tehran, as it was still in a country that's...

Khaled Hosseini