#arty

It was Don Paolo's birthday and all the people of the village were gathered in the piazza to celebrate him. The band played, the wine flowed, the children danced, and, as he stood for a moment alone under the pergola, a little girl approached the the beloved priest. "But Don Paolo, are you not happy?" she asked him. "Of course I am happy," he assured the little girl. "Why, then, aren't you crying? ↗

— Marlena De Blasi

#inspirational #life-philosophy #home

I think we need one recognized, respected public figure to make a tough, blunt statement on just what Reagan's record is and what he might do to the country, let alone the Republican Party before Christmas. ↗

— Robert Teeter

#before #blunt #christmas #country #figure

I am very fond of truth, but not at all of martyrdom. ↗

— Voltaire

#fond #i #i am #martyrdom #truth

I still feel like I've crashed the party. ↗

— Renee Zellweger

#feel #i #like #party #still

I will go to the next election saying to Australians, vote for me, vote for the Liberal Party, and I will become your PM. So I'm offering myself as the alternative PM - that's one way people describe the Leader of the Opposition - but I'm not in politics for myself to realize a personal ambition. ↗

— Malcolm Turnbull

#ambition #australians #become #describe #election

When I said I was going to audition for a film, I got a hearty laugh from all my family. ↗

— Victoria Abril

#family #film #going #got #hearty

I'm an American before any party preference. ↗

— Lynn Anderson

#any #before #i #party #preference

The dissolution of the Party - we will not let such a tremendous, big, and glorious party be so easily crashed: this would then be the moment, when we would begin to fight on all fronts. ↗

— Otto Bauer

#big #crashed #dissolution #easily #fight

I should point out that I was intimately involved with a group of women here a year and a half ago when there was an effort made by a right wing element in the President's party to get him to turn back the clock. ↗

— Birch Bayh

#back #clock #effort #element #get

One of the problems we saw in the last presidential election in our party is that our nominee, while winning the election, which we ought never to forget, often lost sight of the difference between strategy and tactics. ↗

— Paul Begala

#difference #election #forget #last #lost