Public Life Quotes

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Lowly, unpurposeful and random as they may appear, sidewalk contacts are the small change from which a city's wealth of public life may grow.

When once men recognize, both in private and in public life, that Christ is King, society will at last receive the great blessings of real liberty, well-ordered discipline, peace and harmony.

Publicity, publicity, PUBLICITY is the greatest moral factor and force in our public life.

Shrewdness in public life all over the world is always honored, while honesty in public men is generally attributed to dumbness and is seldom rewarded.

I am sure that in estimating every man's value either in private or public life, a pure integrity is the quality we take first into calculation, and that learning and talents are only the second.

American violence is public life, it's a public way of life, it became a form, a detective story form. So I should think that any number of black writers should go into the detective story form.

Our ideology is intolerant...and peremptorily demands...the complete transformation of public life to its ideas.

Whether you're a libertarian liberal or a more egalitarian liberal, the idea is that justice means being non-judgmental with respect to the preferences people bring to public life.

I've been around in public life for a long time. I think people know what I stand for. They know that I have strong convictions, committed principles and I'm prepared to stand up for them.

Involvement in public life provides the opportunity to shape our manners in accordance with civil justice.

I suppose I could have stayed home and baked cookies and had teas, but what I decided to do was to fulfill my profession, which I entered before my husband was in public life

I always thought Henry Kissinger was a disaster because he lies like most people breathe and you can't have that in public life.

Public life is constantly aware of the volcano.

Whatever failures I have known, whatever errors I have committed, whatever follies I have witnessed in private and public life have been the consequence of action without thought.

The men who succeed best in public life are those who take the risk of standing by their own convictions.

Each experience I go through - marriage, my public life, my personal life - I'm learning as I go.

I would dare say that most anyone in public life, if they stay in public long enough, is not treated fairly.

Everyone has three lives: a public life, a private life, and a secret life.

Environmental concern is now firmly embedded in public life: in education, medicine and law; in journalism, literature and art.

Applause, mingled with boos and hisses, is about all that the average voter is able or willing to contribute to public life.

There is a connection, hard to explain logically but easy to feel, between achievement in public life and progress in the arts.

I've never had a very great public life.

There is no private life which has not been determined by a wider public life.

Public life is regarded as the crown of a career, and to young men it is the worthiest ambition. Politics is still the greatest and the most honorable adventure.

In the end, the key ingredient for public life is imagination. You imagine something better, you try to bring the people with you.

I believe in the separation of church and state, absolutely. But I don't believe in the separation of public life from our values, our basic values, and for many of us, our religious values.

I can be much more sarcastic and, I think, sometimes withering in my assessments of things than I allow to show in my public life.

A man in public life expects to be sneered at -- it is the fault of his elevated situation, and not of himself.

The more highly public life is organized the lower does its morality sink.

The Government, being resolved to undertake the political and moral purification of our public life, are creating and securing the conditions necessary for a really profound revival of religious life

These manly sentiments, in private life, make the good citizen; in public life, the patriot and the hero.

In life, particularly in public life, psychology is more powerful than logic.

So many people supported me through my public life and I will never forget them.

Roosevelt's magic lay in one facet of his personality: He knew how to take the risk. No other man in public life I knew could so readily take the challenge of the new.

The senator's actions in the hours and days after emerging from that pond tell us something ugly about Kennedy the man. That he got away with it tell us something ugly about American public life.

A man made for public life and authority never takes account of personalities; he only takes account of things, of their weight and their conseqences.

The problem in public life is learning to overcome terror; the problem in married life is learning to overcome boredom.

It would be unthinkable in Canadian public life today for the public inauguration of our supreme political figures to be accompanied by prayer.

You've only got to be in public life for about a week before you start to question if the newspapers are even giving you today's date with any accuracy!

Healthy, well-informed, balanced criticism is the ozone of public life.

I have earned every cent. And in all of my years of public life I have never obstructed justice.

The schools, the courts, the media - all seem determined to erase Christian influence from public life and confine religion to the four walls of the church or home.

I don't think you can be in public life without being called bad names.

We must fight all that we dislike in public life. We must substitute better ideas for wrong ideas.

However long I serve in public life, I'll stand on that basic liberty of the right to keep and bear arms.

I would like to sound like James Mason. I reckon if I'd had a better voice I could have been prime minister. It is the most irritating voice in public life.

In L.A., you really are in your car all day alone, and there's very little public life.

Always try in interviews to avoid the cliches about the problems of public life.

As his vice president for eight years, I learned more from Ronald Reagan than from anyone I encountered in all my years of public life.

I think credibility, irrespective of what you do, if you are in public life, then it is important.