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

• We count on the FEC to be the public's watchdog.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Public
  • Count

• 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 do not believe in immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern with no superhuman authority behind it.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Authority
  • Ethics
  • Concern

• 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

• ...in respect of riches, no citizen shall ever be wealthy enough to buy another, and none poor enough to be forced to sell himself.

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • Respect
  • Enough
  • Poor

• This man belongs to me, I want him!

  

  Bram Stoker
  • Man
  • I Want

• Bleeding isn't optional for most of us.

  

  Eileen Wilks
  • Bleeding
  • Optional

• I've been in so many crazy experiences in my life. I was always moving, when I was a kid. When I look back, it's hard for me not to feel that certain things just happen for a reason. I don't know. I have no other explanation.

  

  Sebastian Stan
  • Kids
  • Crazy
  • Moving

• 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