Tea Act Quotes

#1. At the decisive Boston town meeting of Nov. 29, 1773, while ships loaded with cargo from the East India Company idled in the harbor, Thomas Young was the first and only speaker to propose that the best way to protest the new Tea Act was to dump the tea into the water.

Matthew Stewart

#2. Politics is not a tea party. When it is time to act, you have to move fast and decisively.

Edward Brooke

#3. What inspires me most to write is the act of traveling.

Tea Obreht

#4. The thing they're trying to stop is 30-million people getting health insurance. That's the substance.

Chris Hayes

#5. Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.

Mark Twain

#6. Each person is just an imprint of the many people who have crossed paths with us over the years, some more than others. Most of us never think to say thank you. I know I never had.

Rose Christo

#7. When my mother makes out her income tax return every year, under occupation she writes, eroding my daughter's self-esteem.

Robin Roberts

#8. Fresh content doesn't exist to game the SEO system. It's the words, images, and stories that truly engage us, make us want to share with others, and creates a bond between us and a brand.

Shawn Amos

#9. With problems and issues groups face- there is an enormous disconnect between understanding and doing.

Marshall Goldsmith

#10. People are like tea bags; you never know how strong they'll be until they're in hot water. In times of trouble, you not only discover what you truly believe but whether or not you can act on your beliefs.

Rita Mae Brown

#11. Tea Party people know that I stood against the Wall Street scam from Day One, that I voted against TARP, that I voted against repealing Glass-Steagall Act that kept these guys under some control.

Russ Feingold

#12. If you want to see God, kill desires. Desires are in the mind. When you have a desire for something, don't act on it and it will go away. If you desire to drink this cup of tea, don't, and the desire for it will go away.

Neem Karoli Baba

#13. You have filled my tea with lumps of sugar, and though I asked most distinctly for bread and butter, you have given me cake. I am known for the gentleness of my disposition, and the extraordinary sweetness of my nature, but I warn you, Miss Cardew, you may go too far.

Oscar Wilde

#14. This is the opposite of the free market.

Bill Maher

#15. My family said that I wanted to act even when I was a child living on a tea plantation in the jungle in India.

Julie Christie

#16. I don't want to make money; I want to make a difference.

Lady Gaga

#17. Had the poet said so in so many words, he would have been far less effective. Because, as I understand it, anything suggested is far more effective than anything laid down. Perhaps the human mind has a tendency to deny a statement.

Jorge Luis Borges

#18. I was able to look at football as something that God was allowing me to do, not something that should define me. I couldn't take my identity from this sport.

Tony Dungy

#19. You are a pawn and a tool," he said. "But you're the right one for the job. For that, I am sorry.

Jamie Wyman

#20. Moments like this act as magical interludes, placing our hearts at the edge of our souls: fleetingly, yet intensely, a fragment of eternity has come to enrich time ... When tea becomes ritual, it takes its place at the heart of our ability to see greatness in small things.

Muriel Barbery

#21. Act averse to nasty language and partial to fruity tea.

Al Swearengen

#22. I have passed all my days in London, until I have formed as many and intense local attachments as any of you mountaineers can have done with dead nature.

Charles Lamb

#23. Airline hostesses show you how to use a seatbelt in case you haven't been in a car since 1965.

Jerry Seinfeld

#24. A lot of bands are still just bands that artists ask to get involved, but a lot of artists are using sound they create. This is different from referencing music.

Brian Chippendale

#25. I think especially as women we nned to recognize that feeling pressure is completely selfimposed.

Arianna Huffington

#26. I used to advise writers to just write their books and it will find a home, and suddenly that didn't seem as certain. I figured it was time to act. I considered a small press through RADAR, my literary non-profit.

Michelle Tea

#27. The apostles were moved, not so much by an intellectual apprehension, as by a spiritual illumination. They met men, and the need of those men whom they met cried aloud to them.

Roland Allen

#28. You are right where you should be / now act like it

Michelle Tea

#29. The thought went through my mind that we should film ourselves in our sexual act, and project our frenzied copulation permanently onto the walls of the tea-room, as a lesson to wake up the boring people who drank tea here, and to show them what life was really all about.

Fiona Thrust