Public Quotes
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A life spent entirely in public, in the presence of others, becomes, as we would say, shallow. While it retains its visibility, it loses its quality of rising into sight from some darker ground which must remain hidden if it is not to lose its depth in a very real, non-subjective sense.
Hannah Arendt
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Public health is being sacrificed to keep us on the road.
John Whiting
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He that does not know how wisely to meddle with public affairs in preaching the gospel, does not know how to preach the gospel.
Henry Ward Beecher
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They've just gone berserk. It's in the public interest to know where these large amounts of money are coming from.
Jack Gould
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When you're young, you obviously have people you look up to. People like Andrew Oldham and Nile Rodgers inspired me then, and they inspire me now. But at some point, you start to try to be the best you can be and you're not copying anybody else. I'm just doing it in public, and my work needs to reflect that as well.
Johnny Marr
Pretenders
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It doesn't matter if you are a Democrat or Republican, we are going to legalize marijuana no matter what happens in ten years, because when 60% of the American public wants something, they're going to get it.
Allen St. Pierre
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The Federal Reserve, like other central banks, wields powerful tools; democratic accountability requires that the public be able to see how and for what purposes those tools are being used.
Ben Bernanke
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We now demand the light artillery of the intellect; we need the curt, the condensed, the pointed, the readily diffused -- in place of the verbose, the detailed, the voluminous, the inaccessible.
Edgar Allan Poe
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Public esteem is the recompense of honest men.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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We need excellence in public education and if the teachers can't do it, we'll send in a couple of policemen.
Frank Rizzo
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We want to make sure horses and riders are safe amongst the public.
Gary Myers
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In art, the public accept what has been, because they cannot alter it, not because they appreciate it. They swallow their classics whole, and never taste them.
Oscar Wilde