Public Quotes
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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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A single factory, potentially capable of supplying a whole continent with its particular product, cannot afford to wait until the public asks for its product; it must maintain constant touch, through advertising and propaganda, with the vast public in order to assure itself the continuous demand which alone will make its costly plant profitable.
Edward Bernays
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Anyone who campaigns for public office becomes disqualified for holding any office at all.
Thomas More
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Librarying is a harder profession than the public realizes, he said. People think it's all rubber stamps, knowing that Dewey 521 is celestial mechanics and saying 'Try looking under fiction' sixty eight times a day.
Jasper Fforde
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Twelve cities in three days is not a public consultation or proper public process. It is not adequate.
Elizabeth May
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The plan was to keep the guys together and away from the public, ... The last thing we wanted was another big drama.
Kevin Moore Chroma Key
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Editorial cartoons are about concept. The illustration is merely a vehicle to convey a point of view. We're here to protect and inform the public, to attack and repel those who do not agree with our long-term shared interest.
Michael Ramirez
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Public opinion is the atmosphere of society, without which the forces of the individual would collapse, and all the institutions of society fly into atoms.
William R. Alger
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I'm Nobody! Who are you? Are you – Nobody – too? Then there's a pair of us? Don't tell! they'd advertise – you know! How dreary – to be – Somebody! How public – like a Frog – To tell one's name – the livelong June – To an admiring Bog!
Emily Dickinson
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Public libraries are the last vestige of public free space.
Joshua Prince-Ramus
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My public is growing up just as I am. After all, I'm not 19 anymore and if I stick with the sex bit, who will be paying to see me when I'm 50?
Marilyn Monroe
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The public has no idea that the deficit has been falling like a stone.
Paul Krugman
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There was no such thing as a private life, all lives were public.
Anthony Swofford
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Certainly when you do a work for a public space, you lose control.
Alfredo Jaar
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Courage is the essential element in any great public man or woman.
Paul Johnson
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The whole thing died in my mind long before the rumpus started. We used to believe the Beatles myth just as much as the public and we were in love with them just the same way. But we were four individuals who eventually recovered our individualities after being submerged in a myth.
John Lennon The Beatles
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If you're a public figure, and if you're working in the White House, you should expect everything you're saying in any context to be leaked.
Meghan McCain
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I come from the showbiz side of things. As I say, my father was a tap dancer. You do everything you can to entertain the public.
Chris Slade
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America is basically a hypocritical society and recognizes that hypocrisy is found throughout. The public doesn't look for politicians to tell the truth or to deliver on their promises. This country could become America the beautiful, but it never will. It's in the hands of the wrong people. And the public is so apathetic. Those who are not apathetic are dispirited, discouraged, and disheartened. Those who will sometimes feel a twitch of inspiration that would lead them to do something, they, based on their conditioning, will start to total up all the reasons why they can't succeed.
Ernie Chambers
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Many people are embarrassed to create in public. It feels unseemly to them, like kissing in plain view... Make a spectacle of yourself.
Eric Maisel
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In America, we have anti-nepotism laws in the federal government and in lots of state governments, because the practice of hiring relatives undermines public confidence that the government official is actually finding best person for the job.
Kathleen Clark
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An author needs to be in the market. He or she needs to come out with a new book every year. That keeps you alive in the public mind and gives a push to your older books.
Ravi Subramanian
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I'm very happy to come back. I've always had success here and the public is fantastic. I love you, Montreal.
Arantxa Sanchez Vicario
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Regis has a great rapport with the American public.
Winston Conrad Martindale