Winifred Holtby Quotes

Public work brings a vicarious but assured sense of immortality. We may be poor, weak, timid, in debt to our landlady, bullied by our nieces, stiff in the joints, shortsighted and distressed; we shall perish, but the cause endures; the cause is great.

Winifred Holtby

• Public
• Weak
• Immortality
• Distressed

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• I don't drink at lunchtime because I'm very weak at alcohol like most Asians.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
  • Drink
  • Alcohol
  • Weak

• You know, I have found out in the course of a long public life that the things I did not say never hurt me.

  

  Calvin Coolidge
  • Life
  • Me
  • Hurt

• It's dangerous to read the Internet about yourself when you're me. Or when you're anyone in the public eye.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Me
  • Internet
  • Dangerous

• I am trying to do comedy on every single medium. I consider myself a public servant.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Comedy
  • Public
  • Servant

• When I became governor, I vowed to restore the public's trust.

  

  Kate Brown
  • Trust
  • Public
  • Restore

• We took Infosys public. That was a nonstop three-week global roadshow.

  

  Nandan Nilekani
  • Public
  • Global
  • Took

• I listen to National Public Radio, which, to me at least, presents the most rounded view of things.

  

  Ed Harris
  • Things
  • Public
  • Radio

• The public has become my fairy godmother.

  

  Eartha Kitt
  • Public
  • Fairy
  • Godmother

• Ice Cube is the piece of me that I give away to the public.

  

  Ice Cube
  • Me
  • Public
  • Give

• It's that beautiful thing to love your weaknesses, your insecurities, and then put them all on blast. That's why I started writing, and that's why it was so hard to do it in public.

  

  Banks
  • Beautiful
  • Hard
  • Public

• In old days books were written by men of letters and read by the public. Nowadays books are written by the public and read by nobody.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Books
  • Public
  • Written

• For Man's grim Justice goes its way,And will not swerve aside:It slays the weak, it slays the strong,It has a deadly stride:With iron heel it slays the strong,The monstrous parricide!

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Strong
  • Justice
  • Weak

• I think Lena Dunham, the public figure, is - I hate the word 'brand,' but I'm going to use it - it's such a brand that is so tethered to her public persona and to 'Girls', but also this progressive politics that she's been more vocal about.

  

  Jenny Zhang
  • Politics
  • Public
  • Brand

• Iran humiliated the United States with the capture of our 10 sailors. Horrible pictures & images. We are weak. I will NOT forget!

  

  Donald Trump
  • Forget
  • Weak
  • Horrible

• Aaron Spelling always had his finger on the pulse of pop culture, he knew what the public wanted to see. He was one of the most loyal men in this business and believed in me at a time in my career when no one else would.

  

  Alyssa Milano
  • Time
  • Men
  • Business

• I miss the days when faith was discussed in public and not the most intimate details of our personal lives.

  

  Joe Lieberman
  • Faith
  • Lives
  • Public

• We believe the public will be better served if such warnings are used more sparingly.

  

  Jack Straw
  • Believe
  • Public
  • Warnings

• Enforcement efforts should focus on aggressive prosecution of bad actors under existing anti-fraud laws rather than imposing costly and largely ineffective procedural requirements on all public companies.

  

  Mallory Factor
  • Bad
  • Focus
  • Actors

• The stubbornness of a weak man should never be underestimated. The weak tend to be very stubborn when they've decided on something.

  

  Frederick Forsyth
  • Men
  • Weak
  • Stubborn

• The party's got to see itself as being one public service organization in a very competitive field, all of whom are competing for the allegiance and commitment and brains of the next generation. They've got to be big enough to reach out to those groups and say "come on in."

  

  Michael Ignatieff
  • Enough
  • Organization
  • Commitment

• Michael Brown happened to be black. Trayvon Martin happened to be black. Eric Garner was a black man. So this pattern continues over and over.

  

  William Lacy Clay, Jr.
  • Man
  • Black
  • Pattern

• Hydrogen is a light, odorless gas, which, given enough time, turns into people.

  

  Edward Robert Harrison
  • People
  • Gas
  • Hydrogen

• Public work brings a vicarious but assured sense of immortality. We may be poor, weak, timid, in debt to our landlady, bullied by our nieces, stiff in the joints, shortsighted and distressed; we shall perish, but the cause endures; the cause is great.

  

  Winifred Holtby
  • Public
  • Weak
  • Immortality