Public Quotes
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I guess it raises questions of what they will discuss if they do exclude the public.
Dick Williams
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The American public has difficulty believing ... [that] injustice continues to be inflicted upon Indian people because Americans assume that the sympathy and tolerance they feel toward Indians is somehow 'felt' or transferred to the government policy that deals with Indians. This is not the case.
Leslie Marmon Silko
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Don't bore the public with mysterious designs.
Bob Noorda
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If you can unify the public mind saving an iconic species like the tiger, like they did with the panda, that means you have to protect their habitat and everything that they hunt. And that means saving massive, thousands of acres for them to be able to roam and breed. So it's more of a land effort.
Leonardo DiCaprio
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What most of all enables a man to serve the public is not wealth, but content and independence; which, requiring no superfluity at home, distracts not the mind from the common good.
Plutarch
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When we got married, we knew our honeymoon was going to be public, anyway, so we decided to use it to make a statement. We sat in bed and talked to reporters for seven days. It was hilarious. In effect, we were doing a commercial for peace on the front page of the papers instead of a commercial for war.
John Lennon The Beatles
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We believe the public will be better served if such warnings are used more sparingly.
Jack Straw
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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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Public self is a conditioned construct of the inner psychological self.
Sigmund Freud
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The desire to be the object of public attention is weak, but the excessive dread of it is but a form of vanity and over-self-contemplativeness.
Sara Coleridge
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It took long and patient work to put it into the head of the public that General Jackson was a great man and that he brought honor to America.
Jared Sparks
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If you look at how the US economy has suffered over the last 15 or 20 years, it's in significant part because we haven't done the investments in research and development and infrastructure and other public goods that are necessary for our growth. And, unfortunately, we're going to be feeling that overhang for a long time to come, because it's the investments we made in the 1950s and '60s and '70s that result in some of the greatest technological breakthroughs that we enjoy today.
Jacob Hacker
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Honest statesmanship is the wise employment of individual meanness for the public good.
Abraham Lincoln
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I always wanted to be an outrage to public decency and a threat to women. And this is one of the few occupations where you're not only allowed that, but you're encouraged.
David Lee Roth Van Halen
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I think we very well may take it public again in 2007. We're going to make sure we explore every nook and cranny of America's economic landscape.
John Holt
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if i could be assured of your destruction, i would in the interest of the public, cheerfully accept my death.
Arthur Conan Doyle
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The public doesn't want new music; the main thing it demands of a composer is that he be dead.
Arthur Honegger
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You say men ought to be hung for the way they are executing the law; I say the way it is being executed is quite as good as any of its antecedents. It is being executed in the precise way which was intended from the first, else why does no Nebraska man express astonishment or condemnation? Poor Reeder is the only public man who has been silly enough to believe that anything like fairness was ever intended, and he has been bravely undeceived.
Abraham Lincoln
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Public morals are natural complement of all laws they are by themselves an entire code.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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The public be damned. I am working for my stockholders.
William Henry Vanderbilt
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It is not enough that the artist should be well prepared for the public. The public must be well prepared for what it is going to hear.
Hector Berlioz
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Public health is being sacrificed to keep us on the road.
John Whiting
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We all have our ambassador that we send forward into the world. We all have people we are varying degrees of real with. There's a public face we all wear. As I get older and more comfortable in my skin, I am trying to combine the two so the real me is there all the time.
Sean Maguire
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I often feel lonely, but I never do while I am on stage… The public is my drug.
Johnny Hallyday