Public Quotes
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I took the unprecedented step of asking that the State Department make all my work-related emails public for everyone to see.
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Poverty is dishonorable, not in itself, but when it is a proof of laziness, intemperance, luxury, and carelessness; whereas in a person that is temperate, industrious, just and valiant, and who uses all his virtues for the public good, it shows a great and lofty mind.
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Public office is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
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A real man would never cry in public unless he was watching a movie in which a heroic dog died to save its master. Or if Heidi klum unbuttoned her blouse. Or he accidently dropped a full case of beer.
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The public totally discounts low-probability high-consequence events. The individual says, it's not going to be this plane, this bus, this time.
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In Iraq, the public has lost all sense of self; it exists only in the form artificially imparted to it by “its” regime. This was an outcome of statification, party growth, and all the other indices that have been discussed.442 The dissolution of Iraqi identity is the most fundamental explanation for why no connection existed in Baʿthist Iraq between military achievements and extending or withholding political allegiance.
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Facts we would always place before our readers, whether they are palatable or not, and it is by placing them constantly before the public in their nakedness that the misunderstanding between the two communities in South Africa can be removed.
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It is often noted that it can be hard for democracies to fight wars because of changing public opinion.
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The literary man has a circle of the chosen few who read him and become his only public. . . . What more natural than that he should write for those who, even if they do not pay him, at least understand him?
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There are many satisfactions in public architecture but one of the greatest is the moment when you unveil a project and suddenly a group of adults
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Perhaps it's true that I'm very hard on myself, but that's better than exhibiting mediocre work... too few were satisfactory enough to trouble the public with.
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In natural pregnancy, more than half of fertilized eggs fail to implant or are otherwise lost. Should we regard that as an instance of infant mortality? And if so, why are we not mounting ambitious public health campaigns to try to save and rescue all of the fertilized eggs that are lost in natural pregnancy? We would need a public health campaign of massive proportions if there really were over a fifty percent rate of infant mortality.
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I have come East to find what the public likes.
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Socialism without public ownership is nothing but a fantastic apology.
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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.
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As a culture, we've become upset by the tobacco companies advertising to children, but we sit idly by while the food companies do the very same thing. And we could make a claim that the toll taken on the public health by a poor diet rivals that taken by tobacco.
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I pledge allegiance to the frog of the United States of America and to the wee public for witches hands one Asian, under God, in the vestibule with little tea and just rice for all.
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Baseball is a public trust. Players turn over, owners turn over and certain commissioners turn over. But baseball goes on.
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A bold architectural statement turns a public building into a landmark, but it is in the details where the architect becomes the real storyteller.
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Language is the apparel in which your thoughts parade before the public.
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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.
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The Australian public are very fair and they are always prepared to give the leader of a major political party a fair go.
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If the public dislikes one of my Post covers, I can't help disliking it myself.
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Nowadays public opinion is not the sum of private opinions. On the contrary, private opinions are an echo of public opinion
