Public Quotes
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Right from the start Abigail used to moan and fidget as her hair was relaxed or braided or thermally reconditioned, but her dad was determined that his child wasn’t going to embarrass him in public. That all stopped when Abigail turned eleven and calmly announced that she had ChildLine on speed‑dial and the next person who came near her with a hair extension, chemical straightener, or, God forbid, a hot comb, was going to end up explaining their actions to Social Services.
Ben Aaronovitch -
Hillary Clinton did not represent, on a lot of policy matters, what the American public perceived to be as a change.
David Sirota
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When it comes to special use of forts and military bases and public parks, where they're getting terms nobody else gets, that has to stop.
Evan Wolfson -
From the point of view of being in the public radar, comedians have less problems than other actors. Action movie stars like Stallone or Schwarzenegger usually attract the more aggressive fans.
Robin Williams -
I grew up in the Justice Department. I served 12 years as a line lawyer in the public integrity section. This department under me will not have any kind of political interference. I will not allow political interference in the Justice Department. Those who might attempt to do that will be rebuffed.
Eric Holder -
It's the combination of the intimate and the public that I find so exciting about being poet laureate.
Rita Dove -
When will the public cease to insult the teacher's calling with empty flattery? When will men who would never for a moment encourage their own sons to enter the work of the public schools cease to tell us that education is the greatest and noblest of all human callings?
William Bagley -
It turns out that the rich are much better placed to feed at the public trough. The poor get crumbs.
Steve Hanke
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Socrates himself said, 'One thing only I know, and this is that I know nothing.' Remember this statement, because it is an admission that is rare, even among philosophers. Moreover, it can be so dangerous to say in public that it can cost you your life. The most subversive people are those who ask questions. Giving answers is not nearly as threatening. Any one question can be more explosive than a thousand answers.
Jostein Gaarder -
The public are entitled to have an absolute guarantee of the financial probity and integrity of their elected representatives, their officials and above all of Ministers. They need to know that they are under financial obligations to nobody.
Bertie Ahern -
Most people like reading about what they already know - there is even a public for yesterday's weather.
Nancy Mitford -
My age is my own private business and I intend to keep it so - if I can. I am not so old that I am ashamed of my age and I am not so young that I couldn't have written my book and that is all the public needs to know about my age.
Margaret Mitchell -
Nowadays public opinion is not the sum of private opinions. On the contrary, private opinions are an echo of public opinion
Nicolas Gomez Davila -
The public already knows about me more than I ever wanted it to know.
Paul Reubens
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This dumb little moment was the first time I heard a stranger hating me in public. I knew then, for real, that thousands of people were having the exact conversation all over the world every moment of every day. Those people were real and their thoughts were formed by overblown or just straight made up stories about me that I could never adequately defend myself against. People all over the world whom I had never met and would never meet hated me. HATED. And what they thought about me was completely out of my control.
Hank Green -
The man who can look upon a crisis without being willing to offer himself upon the altar of his country is not for public trust.
Millard Fillmore -
I was announcing to the public, in 2006, that I'd be leaving Microsoft in a couple of years and focusing full-time on the foundation. That was the time at which we went back to New York and Warren [Buffett] announced these gifts to a number of foundations, with a very high percentage of it going to us and basically doubling our capacity.
Bill Gates -
Because I don't do stand-up, radio has always been my equivalent, a place to stay in connection with the public and force myself to write every week and come up with new characters. Plus it's a medium that – having grown up with it and putting myself to sleep with a radio under my pillow as a kid – I love. No matter what picture you want to create in the listener's mind, a few minutes of work gets it done.
Harry Shearer -
What is required from members of Congress and the public alike is a new spirit of devotion to the national welfare beyond party or self-interest.
Evan Bayh -
Baseball is a public trust. Players turn over, owners turn over and certain commissioners turn over. But baseball goes on.
Peter Ueberroth
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But it must not be thought that I say this out of personal experience: for in the many years that I have been before the public my secret methods have been steadily shielded by the strict integrity of my assistants, most of whom have been with me for years.
Harry Houdini -
Arguably it is also the most thoroughly misunderstood, especially by the lay reading public.
Bart Ehrman -
I'm almost exclusively interested in what happens behind closed doors, between people. The removal of their public face.
Steven Shainberg -
Public office is a public trust.
Daniel S. Lamont